Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ced0f1f7df41fda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-09-01 04:04:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eeaaa9805c1283faa7b9d43cc2e6fa31 SHA-1: 01cf8dd7e9e52e2d32e848646e1e493562176046 SHA-256: 9ced0f1f7df41fda3a395e02559025d20fad252e5a3fb90832b4f5ac394cc684
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'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign Shopify links, but the primary redirector is suspicious. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the suspicious URL and appears to be a lure related to 'active and passive voice test with answers'.

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=active+and+passive+voice+test+with+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6818/6015/files/steel_deck_institute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6211/7020/files/chilton_labor_guides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0185/5646/files/1465653783.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1283/1907/files/riturijawimojowogavodeda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_89a4ea3ff8a14ee09f582ce94b139d16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/39cb9d_aa24e3c5cb244a819ea68474808b22d7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1688/8999/files/47612592785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0410/8711/files/a._r._e._s._extinction_agenda_ex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0470/9056/5278/files/movimiento_oscilatorio_ejemplos.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5360f8_2983de08a3aa40c4a035951fbae07e0c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83f0769e4102485a8a3e32a7e1e7d435.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e73fea_f90a473c4a454bc59fcd0f9190ed6180.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc0c4db397c340528d5172c59936b4ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c032c_6518eae404174801ad219afb73d85fe0.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_off00004e99.bin
cc022360deca27ba0321b4e9f43ac623d111fed5c48d0171776fbce35e91d17b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E99 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006098.bin
24384bb176abdb9fb972da6d519993ecd83b9bdd7d7114dad46b3cefe3a5656c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6098 9952 bytes