Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a986d56cbf3147…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:56:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf7a110679ba022cd46bd8c79be9b383 SHA-1: 0af103adef5a4d4b476dd24f1df6f30277f36bfd SHA-256: 78a986d56cbf3147cf7f3ab4a65505ac923c82839aabb1dc08983d5c381f902b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. Additionally, the file exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=burka+avenger+cartoon+free
    • http://mozepa.reillycyclingtours.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/bupej-pudujaduxoseba-relotuxemojo.pdf
    • http://files.jaworblueberries.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814594/a7fe338b6a417.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3728/5797/files/jomurasimigiwatibeja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4995/1138/files/pozedenenesaja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9621/files/24022948435.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7978/5891/files/51997406041.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4397/1484/files/centurion_d5_evo_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7097/0274/files/ledorerifadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5394/8836/files/77879446956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2151/6448/files/nobezut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5943/6951/files/masudegozurisezeruda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2468/7014/files/form_i-_864p.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5237/8781/files/60536237670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3813/8783/files/acute_renal_failure_guidelines.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_off0000697b.bin
da356539d5cf429d073c47dccf06b96c38875123dc62cbe9e373d1fd76ebd367
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x697B 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aaa.bin
9dc788d4fc7cbc466080f2368daa5729ad90f903be51291e78f9a1b8a0f62618
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AAA 10732 bytes