Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be2acfca06147b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07bd507c668e7068554b967166877443 SHA-1: bb451175d94467b2665dba2da6ce669ebe146f07 SHA-256: 4be2acfca06147b4c789a086e9f50b31ff3c112c53d9fdfbfdbcc2d690e8dce6
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, disguised as a free mechanical aptitude test. This is further supported by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive link.

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=free+mechanical+aptitude+test
    • http://files.rockclimbingprogear.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406258/ecf3c9ca7d47.pdf
    • http://files.ldesign802.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969659/818d213302f7.pdf
    • http://files.midpacificowlrobotics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406453/2985735.pdf
    • http://files.ryswint.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381679/jaxusewititupu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9993/1295/files/12971469589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xogasetixudaxaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pisanebemewamabojesodid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7075/7791/files/vawef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0577/1927/files/kixorofogoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9985/7823/files/newexinusifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3645/files/35815337541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4951/7205/files/xiwalososegomisamoku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1245/4560/files/rebagotifedux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4526/5318/files/98174872927.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7515/7670/files/pumabisoxobaned.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3633/6551/files/zuvewotojonemoripivi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1174/3639/files/58073997607.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_off00006aa4.bin
cbd96ef55037da3fa4972a6927f0051a3f66eda426354999bcd52ab880ddcf48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AA4 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c5f.bin
68e4a6defbbc81994f4097be0b31d75c559ea1172c9b2601f8ad5373bdf14308
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C5F 10204 bytes