Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f9ff37add00d637…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-08-15 20:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d4341a4515bd200d510e11a754f920d8 SHA-1: d23895536b575cac6b4fb8ab6098aeb21acc5978 SHA-256: 6f9ff37add00d637113d12eba7f5809fb793cab0438d1478b65eadc61535c01e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to a malicious site under the guise of a spell guide. The presence of numerous other PDF links further supports the 'link farm' heuristic, indicating a potential SEO poisoning or traffic generation scheme.

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=wizard+spell+guide+dnd+5e
    • http://files.whitehallstringquartet.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302910/demuxak_nopawawof_budaduguru.pdf
    • http://files.guiltygirlsgivinggroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453329/6951167.pdf
    • http://files.albaboatsltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775331/zopokutad.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2868/3674/files/1177002456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1458/files/detuzo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/15402776124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2456/1829/files/au_bonheur_des_dames_emile_zola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jokesinoximirupabujikupoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1320/9246/files/98036743535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8380/9447/files/tesedomuzipegunitisujibak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6717/1223/files/52515486363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3971/1655/files/libumikiremutonomos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1114/4861/files/16711855351.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3484/4059/files/form_g-_45_instructions.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_off00004611.bin
aff0e6093c03acd825afc82c7efa8721cbc8494d5584564a25a500d674a4ad75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4611 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005846.bin
559d3e10e08cf403a08dd6fe2ea7c180da95d0da6c94be543ea9547b77a43335
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5846 9636 bytes