Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 685e1f1a9715fd59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-26 08:15:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4015ba9abf8513d037491f8e5ebb2dc5 SHA-1: f60f65fdaaf284fa49cce1d7695f5840a62b476d SHA-256: 685e1f1a9715fd5905a8a81d96683e046a55a431d0cf4e5d750298bf084051ec
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 of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is known for malicious redirection. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure malicious activity. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=best+weapon+the+forest
    • http://wifopo.introvertthoughts.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/5a9f327ec.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/5669/3154/files/corporate_branding_strategy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9770/1032/files/tomufazewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1615/7344/files/icc_model_commercial_agency_contract.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/8693/9047/files/75289783929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/18410569865.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1954/3199/files/31773948546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4584/6168/files/how_to_move_channels_on_discord_mobile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0479/5800/files/english_phonetic_transcription.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/3655/7736/files/beethoven_sonata_pathetique_sheet_music_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6364/7912/files/76729806254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9946/2558/files/12313665879.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_off00004e9c.bin
46f803d31dddfccd15ad576b35d0110936d56e332600a3a021c44d7344a2fea8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E9C 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ffe.bin
207232816a4befff3b37b83c3f351e2198f09bdf49ca22b8437bceea5ae97fae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFE 9948 bytes