Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d94931803f2afc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb74bac17792a5df2c61dd5ba40aaf88 SHA-1: 01da095d8160c03afa28dbd62e56dd64ea440104 SHA-256: 4d94931803f2afc54913fe273e1db7d3767584194b67877dbe920762c3600f6c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and appears to be a lure related to educational worksheets. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests a deliberate attempt to host a large number of external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=algebra+cross+multiplication+worksheets
    • http://puvubu.drmldr.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379678/butatuneforajora.pdf
    • http://files.losaldrama.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682790/dugagabes-mokegapevujak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5801/1035/files/bartleby_o_escrivo_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0677/0849/files/suvibafoxixibukajati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7291/files/resesobudivijufakaxelov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4248/8998/files/1858239590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/4895/4006/files/17728902604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5017/1554/files/31217857531.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2779/8944/files/roped.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4256/1433/files/angularjs_viewer_demo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0763/0747/files/barcode_attendance_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mefopevepal.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_off000058e2.bin
5cf6b8127ddd25009a65e4e57632c7b0de20aeabca5457fc416a673f31b4adc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58E2 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006be6.bin
92112cdc24b9c3f2fb412f1d5658c5dc19b6f69388eef000f02d893ab16f4d38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BE6 14196 bytes