Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95f40594b086dd7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:59:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d7a478bfe9dd897f7666e261004ecffb SHA-1: 38f37528d0b648b96781ece355850770bd2556d4 SHA-256: 95f40594b086dd7af2f653e42232910f2a0dca9f60cdf01b515c6cc83d06e55e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector hosted on 'ttraff.ru' which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and appears to be a lure for a router manual. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=tenda+ac6+ac1200+user+manual
    • http://files.desert-rose-productions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681296/podugutebogus_pepinepa_juvubisolifixi_kigijifafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7352/7203/files/addresses_in_usa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7837/5831/files/pukaruwazaruxam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65039204935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vizinedidobirefeguj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4920/6439/files/35056702855.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kujefitil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0835/5486/files/fusizuvili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/kutelefodemesij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/15710943862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1425/0905/files/35095882346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4352/8609/files/dowesakixe.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_off000041bb.bin
3d2b200ee86a0e4287fa678118c979de333351fa6678b6055f284a10b686797b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x41BB 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000545f.bin
1a3bd7b21819a8b80136dfd6f96a524a7339505be1540b638f58f02cc213d129
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x545F 9680 bytes