Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72f9781e34fce289…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 21:41:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 816ef64b7a551926870dbe651b787e46 SHA-1: c6f2e98efa293d49aa7f64f12adbcfe45ae4eec4 SHA-256: 72f9781e34fce28952a92bcd7179bba54615d5b52038c31fc1db7438e79cc191
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, disguised as a songbook download. The PDF also features a link farm with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

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/wix?keyword=beginners+songbook+justinguitar+download
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7215/1959/files/rplidar_a3m1_datasheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8575/6568/files/79217319434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1847/7987/files/rodowemobemido.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d6844_70c8f50410c545e3827e1d3a91e1615f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63022f_4048797c793142659d924d326d3fb12b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/930050_4c6fc5afe21a4a4db04f0b4ec6504aee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_664249c81da44ab2969ba9e06293e833.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c0dfbb803454a58ae86d92512682165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3765/5191/files/agenda_2020_united_nations.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2223/8374/files/50334829293.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4410/8445/files/ipl_2020_schedule_time_table_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/complete_university_guide_computer_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9352/4634/files/hormonal_control_of_calcium_metabolism.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_off00004927.bin
e1a88691d6240994782ac1a2de17414bcebc48bfc1170ce1b85f3e9688845f30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4927 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005bb4.bin
7ccf84e460ae1d7b5910d75d9069f3287853aea47dc3167ec99c3b7493649d62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BB4 10060 bytes