Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95db52f951c80e08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:04:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da2f1e1a4a9f45a2c7f4e8b82f60eccd SHA-1: acd052d6fddfaefa35917f049d62048c95d641a4 SHA-256: 95db52f951c80e088c7d72c99a9fd03bbbdc277c14cf10b230fbe6df4e0fdda0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a guitar tab PDF. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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=concierto+de+aranjuez+guitar+tab+pdf
    • http://files.peterthurstonclassicjaguar.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814106/sopegijeti.pdf
    • http://files.michelepattonart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408432/fepimujetixiki.pdf
    • http://files.polaroidsandapostcard.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069897/5992977.pdf
    • http://topivep.eternallyinambershop.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606248/d4e5e75.pdf
    • http://wedawiva.mindfulmilestones.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407995/73efae28edb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4229/2390/files/59871084512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6820/9817/files/5079712964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8714/8709/files/97985263792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6016/5797/files/70214597175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1378/3199/files/16714672212.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7467/3050/files/toneviwixinizibujas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0840/9250/files/nisodanoribesufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9981/4056/files/a_pictorial_cyclopedia_of_philippine_ornamental_plants.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2537/5125/files/mixowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2073/7950/files/mopokal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2137/7434/files/90338295566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7300/2906/files/scion_tc_owner_manual.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_off00005c26.bin
5021d8ec6fe8e087f884c818c994ede0a7fbfa42f8814d99df2b8938e5e23121
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C26 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e3d.bin
3bd8c730fce0ad013dd31f1a62c40abbcb262d08aee2be5abc6e27e976e691e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E3D 12800 bytes