Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9079cc1b01a82d7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fbdcb4996c21bf3570d54fb806d08e7e SHA-1: f88c2905dcbf33d8f7118c80d1f701718ab7326a SHA-256: 9079cc1b01a82d7e03524aaae8a3b35b69551f83d5cdc9358ee004a984af4fd4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and keywords suggesting a lure for users interested in 'arduino car projects'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

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=arduino+car+projects+pdf
    • http://files.zionlutheranclark.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740193/4348688.pdf
    • http://files.leahradetsky.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438190/tifuwiki.pdf
    • http://files.frontiermosaic.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163516/budisusuwof-ginebatoxezaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/suwagurujap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5476/files/95634857399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6018/2692/files/fuxodomagakijunixilev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5679/8615/files/tidofizutudeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4124/9690/files/turepobatodigefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4782/8133/files/aditya_hrudayam_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9273/0275/files/tekatatejogafaniluv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6874/4087/files/madden_17_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7674/7413/files/bsc_publication_bank_po_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9041/6550/files/application_for_job_format.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_off00008813.bin
2926675bbf86e845fdc1554d8e688c2b4cf54c81740e8f38286cfe21496c6744
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8813 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000099cb.bin
ee3580273edf6a14e2236357cadcde7242d3c5cd86511a6c017ed4a2e98f2653
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99CB 10420 bytes