Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 864e26cefbc095d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:40:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b3582bd0299cb845efbb73fa7fb6d96a SHA-1: 6c28889bdc6bae48a45d8ceb877732e4ec35b659 SHA-256: 864e26cefbc095d49ca986ce724066a06a9689aa9d7b11d9e310be8e005cad0f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to educational materials, likely serving as a lure. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is flagged as a redirector.

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=math+worksheets+for+high+school+algebra
    • http://files.manicatmidnight.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969535/parabinin.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1910/7480/files/13725223277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/0225/2699/files/xorugofepunapisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1800/9251/files/distributive_politics_spreadsheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7250/4483/files/vifekasomafukumaxib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6661/2119/files/adblock_android_xda_developers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6241/1935/files/berserk_manga_volume_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1175/1579/files/44874703027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5350/4917/files/medical_biochemistry_textbook_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9898/1030/files/jimej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1428/3686/files/51427392801.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2539/2035/files/vivurunivekerofuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/apprendre_les_bases_de_l_allemand.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_off00008dd5.bin
46f335f75e2bcd90a579853d8bbd3c780d16c7dfbae7511b9dd8c7c7309ba787
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DD5 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a074.bin
fe9070329e7f168f1a2537e5db46ef58f49adc2074235966c6413addcc799b7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA074 14268 bytes