Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c892c2ccd4a5b93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-07-30 05:28:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2bc694b06848555a650831dbaf5d0f46 SHA-1: 4bd16ee9d7e4f286ba8bf1f8cef72f09d81069ce SHA-256: 9c892c2ccd4a5b932de42c76338bb889996bb4c5a440df8369ea364125a5dee9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to educational materials. The presence of numerous external links, including a link farm, indicates an attempt to distribute content or redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=btec+national+engineering+student+book+pdf
    • http://files.akidsplace-huntingburg.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738894/werinaxarilevak.pdf
    • http://files.tfmusicparents.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637419/8e8939f3.pdf
    • http://files.dalymanningopticians.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437377/f3e748.pdf
    • http://files.charltonkupaahee.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968926/eb144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9590/8761/files/bidaroke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3906/4225/files/30635696550.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7230/files/15810873223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7737/8972/files/fagazewedur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51191810805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1563/files/kibajudugesalam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6419/7273/files/30912398532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1141/3912/files/78895103101.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4552/files/78819802283.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2004/9822/files/50777092215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3041/files/75821843490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lalosukiwafigoledexefes.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7737/8972/files/faga

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000055ab.bin
25774672cedb4da4cd187dcbacfddcb98e6c4611226602aee2b756ae27e5891b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55AB 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000683a.bin
282bca4cb38c027db097d35a7bcaccb74dff17708d84148d4f03d19e5ce50a72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x683A 9528 bytes