Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87e4ae449229bc57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 18:45:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e89a64dd4861cf42c498f1f79d9d187b SHA-1: 5fde2096ac33a5b862f03ed1b68de814b4e3df49 SHA-256: 87e4ae449229bc57f87b4c57107a37d366de9d5fbb3fa95c08cfc0fb8e9749ff
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for malicious redirector links, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. 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/pify?keyword=gre+synonyms+list+pdf
    • http://files.healthymindsinstitute.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775378/lakiv_kixenit.pdf
    • http://files.txtsantacruz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380616/deguwutazow.pdf
    • http://files.1bsf.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696048/763c205de5c61.pdf
    • http://files.pollination-project.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712093/9503835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/11812511376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0114/3715/files/tosiderejuxekeridedelimur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/xexazivotalezikuwezo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5628/2265/files/american_museum_of_natural_history_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3405/7621/files/enlace_covalente_no_polar_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7751/0055/files/calculus_by_howard_anton_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7848/6933/files/foxiwofatev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3018/4087/files/vitigosuse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3730/2679/files/arya_vysya_gotras.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_off00019a5e.bin
6fe411af5e822e7d69bea7df6f72939128a39e5b2e7bd56d4c664250cf3744ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19A5E 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001abba.bin
5dcf76a2c4d149792ffaed035e035a714d0e93fbf6c3095edd98edf6cc45e3e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ABBA 10704 bytes