Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8190f6e3509628c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-09-03 18:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2237713a7a6815203e0c41455cca3838 SHA-1: 767cb967bc0ac2c0c71ce0b93b6924c36a1cc55b SHA-256: 8190f6e3509628c0e42c5c0c2f011db2c30ccc1919a5c90283f8af376fa8177f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content, possibly for SEO manipulation or further payload delivery.

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=whatsapp+status+video++helo+app
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0128/1701/files/46698739443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4818/9595/files/rational_numbers_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7957/3160/files/26737732552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7618/2165/files/hanuman_chalisa_fast_version.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3972/7509/files/autocad_2017_activation_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8087/4139/files/vitinorimodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/poximilerimomutadofavim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6688/4250/files/76246288889.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d9a50_26946c0c1d8444f6ac57c06f1288398c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_02827a72225b4bc6bbfcb812b0cf4027.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e87bf_358abd2cca4346dc87cc22028e549baa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_e263213a9022489aa64b7d3fc9fa4000.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_off00007be7.bin
ea650f6efd88ac1a18f51f0952e5a47c96fba721218c1fd0739d0ebb8ca42806
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE7 5024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d0e.bin
c757d84984c637d5dc2c020f3daa5b917171dae5b799c5e47a794bec75f3ffd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D0E 10580 bytes