Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9168344bda8bc8a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 16:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 02de77401a0b3e12a8baa70875f696f5 SHA-1: fdd5ddb48cc093fa9e083165a12b56408cb6c445 SHA-256: 9168344bda8bc8a88cc379d5027bf6b1e7906c5c47477e35e1a806512b17cc61
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, masquerading as a search result for a specific product manual. This is a common social engineering tactic to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The PDF also contains a large number of links to other PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to spread malicious content across multiple domains. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious activity is the redirection to the ttraff.ru domain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=google%20pixel%202%20camera%20manual%20mode
    • http://files.eyelikegallery.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873804/a9790.pdf
    • http://files.saltwaterstudios.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776272/maxizidurolokow_jemus.pdf
    • http://files.etobelarusdetka.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775310/4719149.pdf
    • http://files.ewgic.eu/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606262/povofofutuzepovagozo.pdf
    • http://files.sherwoodrome.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437530/fanof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23063093424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5714/3199/files/sowutibewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9688/3868/files/bozovelilorafavukasimavab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3529/5905/files/82015651806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6671/0433/files/majeleroretikufojusip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3621/1357/files/42535010812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4845/0718/files/arabic_alphabet_coloring_pages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7167/6314/files/25405923859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6219719719.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_off00006017.bin
5446a2ad3d7eedd844ec5317acefe32535983a279938f3ce0465fb2e9071d15e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6017 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000728d.bin
95ac02cde0f818fcfe23129db918f1c970b1ad92680649e555d9dcbfbc07cedf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x728D 11016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000980d.bin
f53b43e12006e3d52612f085e6e184fa5bba3604999f0cb64562e6bb996dc06b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x980D 16384 bytes