Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39ac47b80331ec38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-27 22:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b43fa9f359c1714c7146b72f12ba321 SHA-1: 85f2ba6e208304c640803448885f92c0268d82ee SHA-256: 39ac47b80331ec38e722048e6afd151122c69fb76777b8fd57032451fa9b1649
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as "coding interview questions". The document also features a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=coding+interview+questions+narasimha+karumanchi
    • http://files.westtexasguitarfestival.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398059/figotokolo.pdf
    • http://ponusitiv.weruntheforest.co.nz/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/9213299.pdf
    • http://files.ironbreedlemc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382092/1892704.pdf
    • http://romugaz.scinteck.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695578/bolibusuwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7183/9135/files/33721445901.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6975/0940/files/5764764678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1373/files/98177532999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3279/6574/files/libro_de_absentismo_laboral.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3095/3627/files/vadomemowugoxalanotofij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4484/files/juzifemuju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1367/5930/files/arlington_library_fallout3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5221/9030/files/john_deere_sabre_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3088/8094/files/2728910520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1863/9771/files/firajipamer.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000057a8.bin
a047e36a73f7bf687e4cdf332d78b1f6195479178f1c937f331818bb944b37d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57A8 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a76.bin
02c1507b096ac927f8a2811ab436a2ce6c54c9f80eccc299367b5dc7470e7128
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A76 9832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008c29.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C29 4324 bytes