Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88edb0c4c38a685b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e35dfa5de9a58834ac570bb9b1557245 SHA-1: 3bd6efa8c1f8b38d5eb2200cbdc8fd6ef0bfdb6c SHA-256: 88edb0c4c38a685b8a3e1efecffecbd49b79d8c11c14941e0d98692df03ee4ea
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=schoolboy+q+blank+face+lp+zip'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the primary malicious URL, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDFs, while individually benign, contributes to the overall SEO-based link farm strategy.

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=schoolboy+q+blank+face+lp+zip
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5894/4405/files/78306263189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9375/4009/files/novirepikegez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4160/4263/files/xetasuwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6296/8991/files/binomial_distribution_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4393/0791/files/83244399197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2991/4012/files/tratado_de_direito_penal_bitencourt.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ade4e6_691dcd6f313c41019a91349ce82e4aeb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16d63047691748e19d09bcab43da2467.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64a5360b754243ffa1bec505528476f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_332a6af93cd74de2bd22bf25331e50f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f55bec_8dffee07b04445cdafffab9c1aef35b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_70794ba9d425445caab772f7e50515e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_60c52c18ac314ec1bd6534ddb8b469d5.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_off00005b9b.bin
33bad35ce78c19925a88c6936ce38b0efd90d20e927816dcf20fbab01c824824
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B9B 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e12.bin
5314372d928d3b14e4be698fb919c76dae6e9b0e7d8556ede09cb1d3ce1271b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E12 10600 bytes