Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 903981cdf9193952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 14:13:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b18262db9fd6097854eacafd3c31414 SHA-1: 62d6ca0661986df7c56bede06f913b7d533f5ddb SHA-256: 903981cdf9193952b0a2ff4ce917dc77f60565ec3014f18715861b89ca72a0be
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but the primary malicious URL is ttraff.ru, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for users searching for sheet music PDFs. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the heuristic findings.

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=blessed+assurance+satb+pdf
    • http://files.monikaflanagan.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856545/godiw.pdf
    • http://files.barredwoodsmaple.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775760/9166758.pdf
    • http://files.libertymerchandise.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/neronevigusifinevegu.pdf
    • http://files.watermenperformancecenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/wevanubukawev_zuwifi_pikofo.pdf
    • http://tavidigit.nrmg.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/edd67c54ea5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fesitoxerevujadutag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0789/1877/files/zozirolegobo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8940/2779/files/pamozulomamesufor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1701/1353/files/kenimeguzezoleruxowefiwus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6392/7206/files/59961911123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2419/4468/files/pdf_editor_free_online_tool.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7930/1288/files/lotesalawuremejunokoruwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6954/7431/files/rita_mulcahy_pmp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0185/6668/files/biography_of_famous_personalities.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5543/2348/files/62552475848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9811/6006/files/askep_pneumonia_pada_bayi.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_off0000555f.bin
6414b3a159e8a7e7000363a5f7d1bb13d7a304f5605062f323b5ca99f3ab26f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x555F 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006789.bin
e630f1f0f7e9e0d959929d1c7722529614cf6c2bf16175856e1a6ac42bc4b16c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6789 10176 bytes