Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e03a494931de6f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:40:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 24e66e04262eaffb1c93fa2d1e3d858c SHA-1: d6934ad860cb0f9c1e771356ae6a1ea05967645e SHA-256: 8e03a494931de6f8a786be57415616fcbf9e708187bb702f1aae9d21331d2389
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) and appear to be part of an SEO link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Adder tv shows' and a URL that matches the redirector. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt using a link farm to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=adder+tv+shows
    • http://vovanop.jhphotograph.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969077/jedavonotexuvuge.pdf
    • http://files.havenhomeindia.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969680/luwifamaxa.pdf
    • http://rowiko.talesfromparadiseheights.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/3c72750591c8771.pdf
    • http://files.melindaawestland.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775484/lovurutorujikepetu.pdf
    • http://files.feedingyourselfwell.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814856/bamelavisun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0374/8260/files/47431453205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7469/6856/files/65992777314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/zaberu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5935/5558/files/doxele.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3082/3583/files/voxujobak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kubogofire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7583/5806/files/gmp_good_manufacturing_practice.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7749/2118/files/33572523468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3023/9642/files/business_analysis_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8104/4902/files/aristotle_politics_hackett.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/78734171724.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_off0000ec36.bin
efa5a484e0606582e76659b18f75339581326b985e3af569e064e6d4b8e3b431
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC36 4812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca5.bin
a3f6eb26d14e3924ec6255795d927fa2bad2428aa400b376f747a81c79f18444
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA5 10172 bytes