Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40d0c8ab5676cfe4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 02:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2582fb02b5e45fe16083ecf3e4340193 SHA-1: f39b54ec0224c632ddf4f262524059d4947f0b25 SHA-256: 40d0c8ab5676cfe4ff52a86887cdea5b9b0ca8d965c3e7c432bad5dc096c8306
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and URLs, including a link to 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=cdate+in+vb.+net+to+format+date
    • http://mulezas.donnawocher.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/mesaje.pdf
    • http://talul.bekindtoeverykind.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408024/7935704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4736/1439/files/google_chrome_web_to_converter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0885/0081/files/lipid_peroxidation_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1103/9655/files/96392309426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6925/7366/files/bs_standards_electrical_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7704/2325/files/gunojibozurolevur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9105/8083/files/8252160502.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7560/9510/files/15207858353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1531/5351/files/xisimulisudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9091/2159/files/dotitefaxopurodasepux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4297/1553/files/31553764302.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_off00006061.bin
a1779ca53098f78adf5befcfd56dd66576b3897c0db30a270d68621da22e60bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6061 4888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070f5.bin
e15ff80367bac7d24b047cf141fa0b2d50395053e12df48ff8b2ffcd3813ee6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70F5 11676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000976d.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x976D 4324 bytes