Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a93e48694d968af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 22:40:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f1150ee884d23c2ac5338f863389e808 SHA-1: fa35d7a902badaa09074b1308fcf3a4682988917 SHA-256: 4a93e48694d968afd54d094c42d188d9aadb596dec66719be6be10d0f35d59d0
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 a link to an English language course PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=english+language+course+in+urdu+pdf
    • http://files.sastinson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452867/d434e0b887604.pdf
    • http://files.fanaticalyankeenfldraftscoutingreports.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740804/piluwi.pdf
    • http://files.fantasticfrocks.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302944/kebuvewaxozel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4172/files/biwiwubewamidexofivoture.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6225/5013/files/37917885330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4868/8033/files/41245641272.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5086/8646/files/wewemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30611133668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4361/8965/files/sarurufeninonebemekibom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3460/5728/files/jetugepaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2779/9957/files/html_5_tags.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8529/9874/files/metaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6307/3181/files/70820054828.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_off000061ff.bin
5cfec6facec7cc84d812a932501fbdfe9e7022faaf83bbcd253e3d4ee84738b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FF 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007448.bin
cd2d2dac34e44f55a9e5b31940b72defad62d107c9d512f16e743b73a0c15b6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7448 10076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000096e5.bin
dce0d9f4d9d314f89d2f38e604a31435b1d8ac602110ca1d069357f393f4004d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96E5 20484 bytes