Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8080ff070570b35e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 16:14:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ddae095c5323ec4e8617f4ff938c50e1 SHA-1: b225655cfb13a291caa391a8fa8fe4aa4cddc6cd SHA-256: 8080ff070570b35eb300997fd34a0bc88d63cbf7cd09c5bb898209689670739b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments and URLs that suggest a lure for users to click on these links. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is used to redirect users to other potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier 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=vocabulary+test+pdf+grade+6
    • http://files.oscarconstruction1.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681464/1994782.pdf
    • http://rikuluner.kimblevins.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874038/7f50a598989.pdf
    • http://files.ka-bloomgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398323/7560275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1034/2564/files/tom_cruise_biography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9432/6949/files/4656343506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/3001/files/kewerovuxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8901/6472/files/dowikavinegidofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0002/1667/files/74115999040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7256/0031/files/66765568021.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3038/4537/files/pirated_games_ps3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9896/4117/files/pakewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0081/2952/files/employment_insurance_premium_reduction_program_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2044/3045/files/mac_keyboard_shortcuts_symbols.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4349/4807/files/rekexujakedig.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ffa.bin
e62086f5582a072fab6fd1461eb6bd6d01553253d40af6f9014c87aa888548b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFA 5684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000736e.bin
f1004aed5eb1bbc7285650735bbed5a5a58c54761272d38a65718213b0a55feb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x736E 13828 bytes