Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e33448e3e83195d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 18:21:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eefe5fcecaf4230ebb626d541bf6eef1 SHA-1: 5bb8ad8e9ea77af796b0843e92b617a90d013567 SHA-256: 8e33448e3e83195d529758c13a7d192c0a35b17910899a46a1fd766155ecfa28
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=irritable+bowel+syndrome+ppt+free', suggesting a lure for users searching for 'irritable bowel syndrome ppt free'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=irritable+bowel+syndrome+ppt+free
    • http://files.doublejsdachunds.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814958/3790532.pdf
    • http://bipil.theboysbarkingbakery.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/dawasubekifikuxepule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2329/3864/files/roger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8031/0174/files/zevebi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2670/2755/files/34769508233.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/71085392634.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8039/8486/files/basic_english_test_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15518423203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5395/6758/files/59110008104.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12091312038.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2079/6583/files/29346835000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/23228741154.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006156.bin
a537ec3e5f1cc44912a1247b9f501aef8e93ee9342bbd41ead64b8de346a8fc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6156 1968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a80.bin
42ecd6c412f0d21cfb201bba1105607b2922f2e0329ebeedc9dac4b67640bbdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A80 5456 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007d02.bin
34f8634e6e322a7760c9bb511cd5b1273597998603d54b977627a77cc94df96b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D02 10608 bytes