Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48514146c144db8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d68463232f18af748dfebbcdcbd401c4 SHA-1: 751f3400f3b969f3ba0659a1b77b10e9bf8b426c SHA-256: 48514146c144db8fe4e09ffc98ccdeaae517b29da7c4e53c3ff311c91a670c5d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical redirector link pointing to ttraff.ru, indicating a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and topic as the redirector, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and redirect to malicious infrastructure.

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=descriptive+writing+worksheets+for+5th+grade
    • http://files.pdmmarketsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070722/7057381.pdf
    • http://files.fourlittlecarpenters.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775462/6975739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9146/files/annapurna_circuit_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7723/7913/files/pirite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/babasetaxoguvivowe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8447/8632/files/irctc_tatkal_booking_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4731/2789/files/cardiology_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5543/8234/files/vasowuxajatopebokunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9241/0525/files/29398318739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3201/0152/files/branches_of_psychology_and_their_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5029/4678/files/paraisos_fiscales_en_mexico.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_off00005f20.bin
a83e656362ee7830ad3c89d8318c36bd95cd723eba07d8b5ad3e483d86f1eb57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F20 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071f3.bin
1913cef66204150b746c681b9199be694b0a07e92ba9b22ee43c2c120116b7cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71F3 10308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000953e.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x953E 4324 bytes