Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45b39f343552c4b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:31:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f22c50bf2cdac33ac3de1aab72740f82 SHA-1: 10f45302b7a6cba1c49a8f8e5f1a8e836ad7f68f SHA-256: 45b39f343552c4b3ccb3d18a77a028c929928ccdaa603891458988f0bd6460df
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 with a keyword related to educational exercises. The document also functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to various PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious link is intended to redirect the user to potentially harmful 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=verb+exercises+with+answers+for+class+8
    • http://naninuzu.mysteryofmagic.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/fc8533203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6278/7225/files/difference_between_reducing_and_nonreducing_sugar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5113/files/gamutufizedenozuzupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/top_down_approach_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9151/5809/files/coronary_atherosclerosis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9083/7655/files/approval_sheet_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4484/files/bupademuxokujikovurumiki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/zeroxiludufatozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1310/2998/files/pebexibuwine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9135/9899/files/kozejagalel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7341/4055/files/34117833452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7607/files/23831787799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0718/8898/files/waborobuwod.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_off00006920.bin
6556668ed0f70b76ef786ba0c29b0f020fbc47651da5c236b568f5e20bc23be9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6920 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba7.bin
8e01c865eff6f0bef15776237c14be941fefe0254ee267e31af98623ddfd0fc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA7 10280 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009ece.bin
f6e0f4a25f18a144688c6b7f40519a5efc98c72643b9054f89526e396d9b459d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ECE 16144 bytes