Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83976fb0f3e96d6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 00:59:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ddc0cb50c9dfa7762eeab77abd3117a7 SHA-1: e00b61fe232a41b16e4c232b6c08d5b6b64d04f4 SHA-256: 83976fb0f3e96d6b882ad7b9751acf230e6bd75e168676b6ac9400c1bc9d5f19
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.ru`. The document body, though malformed, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also 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/wix?keyword=descargar+dreambox+control+center
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2656/9633/files/vogapivepaladurumub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7217/5784/files/compressing_files.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9116/9185/files/jurnal_asbabun_nuzul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8424/2334/files/700_free_manipulation_background_for_editing.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28e3e3daad48408fa536b1a636621400.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_fe9a188162a640419130dfce60eb0775.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d94ae5_c3487e83d12542f9b940b3188e80901f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9209/0788/files/calculus_2_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4042/1541/files/8_weeks_to_sealfit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8801/1673/files/xuwumulebiwifivowule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0515/7282/files/30428859182.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_2ad275ccd0604ab98d633db37aee3a92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_643fd96829174a5bada6054e7027b46e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bdf838f6053b4991886d3a1a2d6d2eaf.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_off000066e1.bin
c8cc90f54a3811ed0f6838490e5fe6d7384b00fb4afdd591486b6089be02e5e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66E1 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000795b.bin
d91248d1019b29cc359194a50e683eb44636522553a2d9171918431d0d79cb54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x795B 10860 bytes