Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9256c403cdc6a944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:40:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b1cad4712faed5cb5b78287bbc61e00 SHA-1: ec242ca3de56d0145921ad57127c65c625b33285 SHA-256: 9256c403cdc6a94448a4680a4c1a7eee401782aa42d61be574116125567bab45
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link within the PDF.

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=bases+nitrogenadas+purinas+y+pirimidinas+pdf
    • http://perep.darcythomasdo.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712324/siwijisixonujugakumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9494/1603/files/discovering_psychology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9448/1821/files/fufotukimafanexulut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1224/1046/files/51673342557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/3189/6740/files/debate_writing_format_class_8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4211/8555/files/windows_update_agent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0669/7367/files/38121790678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6126/3001/files/amazon_cloud_reader_to.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5424/1694/files/verujopotogukovozeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0016/7589/files/teaching_phonics_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/7711/8625/files/wowudupabirisokovupemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/dinamani_tamil_news_paper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9459/8047/files/gogoku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4922/0256/files/sublime_text_crack.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_off0000659e.bin
e9a484655a27765a767a779c6d49575e0a36a336bab62c0b2109b9cea73f2294
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x659E 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007831.bin
19e10d384a89958cc9db5caa723fff631dc7fe0b4951eab08595000750c23945
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7831 11260 bytes