Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99e940b82cd7c801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1a4301bb8be4eac9ddaa60b4818f7f82 SHA-1: 5ac12926d7a2dd798a4cb66b776306f79b3017c9 SHA-256: 99e940b82cd7c801b8d2efde49880e9bbf86eac5fbace493d23fcbf7550c1134
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and appears to be a lure for a 'universal remote manual'. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious redirector.

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/wix?keyword=rc122+universal+remote+manual
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9643/8936/files/13839857737.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3279/7603/files/fast_android_emulator_for_low_end_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/75687200344.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0413/3525/files/baparupijerebo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9313/1425/files/63959434581.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67f5f7_1e79f8e36802432689b475c3ed6d5645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6717/8134/files/travel_consent_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1278/4277/files/85305222718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6325/4944/files/wifodepuzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kaxepetumikikexozifaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8978/8069/files/84623708325.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_off000055db.bin
f7b9f71b6b1d90d9d4be0b36a36a823244224c52a961a8ad02bdae9f777010c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55DB 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006776.bin
009653ef7dd70fe778697fe25981f42ae276daf6335b09fb68d85996f5518adf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6776 11328 bytes