Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602d82c3c1c1a9d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 10:45:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1cf0f58905ee341ee23f56b68b929e6f SHA-1: 397df2a91b1c0c1cb5689fd2f2ee71816f9dd14f SHA-256: 602d82c3c1c1a9d1ce758e506d52d6261c5746e1e3e8beafd6244737f30f1131
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes the same URL and a reference to 'norming stage of group formation', suggesting a lure. The presence of many external PDF links, some pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or content stuffing technique to obscure the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious activity observed is the redirection to a harmful URL.

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=norming+stage+of+group+formation
    • http://files.sworldmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406430/kuxakekajovowuti.pdf
    • http://files.sapcrc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/34f020555d2657.pdf
    • http://files.lamarrministriesllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814676/monen.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5547/1006/files/fedeba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2920/6952/files/excel_bookkeeping_spreadsheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9798/1082/files/machine_learning_algorithms_cheat_sheet_r.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/62214505056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9090/3193/files/organelos_celulares_unam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2465/3224/files/namo_app_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6345/9496/files/kerurekulabab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7772/0469/files/quantum_resonance_magnetic_analyzer_driver_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0413/9416/files/zomebomejoludo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/mehndi_design.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_off000065c8.bin
a6fe87ef212362010e95c6adb81489010507b881fb463d637d42754d9df957ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C8 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007745.bin
04056f2aa7327fd3354565aff3924ef9d1f7bd7c49135cc59a92e52b716f1d2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7745 10040 bytes