Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44b7989876c8b60c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: faecb4df025e1a9e3fe7099a80348233 SHA-1: 125c101c9cfeb905a551c41a8031bc19f0eadf94 SHA-256: 44b7989876c8b60ca6f5721c80d0b5a91229a0844de084ef8cca215ed88d9942
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 likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs, potentially for SEO manipulation or to appear as a legitimate document repository. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=adjectives+adverbs+test+pdf
    • http://files.humanities.shenfieldlearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397946/1664648.pdf
    • http://files.acedu.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636625/3828387.pdf
    • http://bemefas.johnstotalentertainment.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/toxexomolowusox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6851/2669/files/28_rules_subject_verb_agreement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8620/9439/files/gulutuxosumezujebor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6213/1869/files/momasegij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1030/8765/files/kuboxiwavaremowenomufuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8993/5002/files/algebra_1_practice_exam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7389/4555/files/android_game_hacker_tool.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6488/5397/files/95827337655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1549/files/17602801687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1637/8773/files/83822480184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4949/1359/files/golumoputetekemikexivif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2967/files/gonitejobufalitofeviz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7660/files/javascript_binary_to_decimal.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000080ab.bin
180658270e096f8ff1b43427a7ff39d4f8e4a3f0440cc76ca3e069a964a7ea5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80AB 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009310.bin
125ca7cc8a81c8c0475d341d4b9c09ba1152b096939d8233664e6f3eaf2c8116
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9310 10128 bytes