Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e9fcade33fa4a20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 10:12:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 84f188cc046de5b6037a5cffca1b78b9 SHA-1: 8dd0872638bf54d659a03478b6f06d69880a91d6 SHA-256: 5e9fcade33fa4a2036a704d72c8e4b94db8a402bafc701fae208728e570b3f28
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to redirector infrastructure, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically flags a link to 'ttraff.ru', indicating malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to a technical leadership PDF, likely a lure.

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=becoming+a+technical+leader+weinberg+pdf
    • http://files.tolinterfaithtemple.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814774/sududinurixupu-depaga-rabelemame.pdf
    • http://files.trojanpathways.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681851/larowifabojafol-sivadufim.pdf
    • http://files.nicolanotes.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813643/gogadut-jivowazajadob-dapanof.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8590/3525/files/goduvusinosig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1691/2037/files/21665415844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7513/2824/files/82835091548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4101/4438/files/25569062139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wixedazatujiguxup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5393/0901/files/53125361694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/83396842765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4093/9933/files/95630241044.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3925/files/fiduboxaxupizatunupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8910/7869/files/mejud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0002/0635/files/rezoponi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6854/5441/files/xowipexezajokolola.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009f42.bin
585a1edc0f5eb2b2942d82f5648004dc333055d3fb7b25d5210d1b6b871e5830
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F42 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b1ab.bin
cbb33f648744460a4891cac7370c37bdc644f9f119e0961d97bceb34e5279656
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1AB 10512 bytes