Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56bd3d3ecdc47e6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 10:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 239068f73a808d7e62bf8f0d15a0450c SHA-1: d1dd67bb3abca6ce892dc7884d5c4c22e043eed6 SHA-256: 56bd3d3ecdc47e6e3d20fe1d3268a619e4c3596ccb2551620d13ec26e1709d04
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to external PDFs. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=old+c.+g+song++dj, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body contains obfuscated text and the URL, suggesting a lure or redirection mechanism.

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=old+c.+g+song++dj
    • http://files.thetradewater.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454521/towiv_labinivig_wuruk.pdf
    • http://nuxumuvir.babyg-lash.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775583/1617803.pdf
    • http://files.cffu.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683111/bazakekukaxatiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7813/1611/files/vebilekekijuvamomum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/zekozufesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/71419102660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/10383234339.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9313/1425/files/mitoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6990/5825/files/hijri_calendar_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3912/9751/files/singapore_sri_lanka_free_trade_agreement_sinhala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3799/files/33577354823.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0749/2775/files/92087352224.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2017/3983/files/tadogusurega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1421/8143/files/biblical_archaeology_a_very_short_introduction.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_off0000ce4d.bin
b69d87d235689447dfd3b442f131f5fef27e05bb996e2facb7b68610659a146a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE4D 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000df38.bin
8650d715b0a62da2343a5bb0d93d9f92a718f6a7eaedbc65a40011a9778c9f7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF38 10816 bytes