Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ea782f12562e88f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 23:20:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d2258ecd475d88203e8e288be06a564b SHA-1: f9ca19572044f8591e120ba80a95ac4ac7ca0325 SHA-256: 9ea782f12562e88fbdaff079edc3efdc007adbeb0a94acb2dd713b2b7ae12860
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to 'learn japanese pdf drive', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous other Shopify links, some flagged as benign, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination. 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=learn+japanese+pdf+drive
    • http://files.funkyiceclothing.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815003/4469808.pdf
    • http://files.redlotusskincaresalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070597/remotos.pdf
    • http://files.emilycatherines.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739777/vovonisudijoxonez.pdf
    • http://madenitid.ladecharter.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/ponekexawedol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2201/4870/files/molavopojinonanozab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4418/3974/files/gabusegifujaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5381/6728/files/daxabuzubejeruzukofuwute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4659/1903/files/history_of_islam_in_urdu_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56317886700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8982/9800/files/42427664460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8982/5687/files/www._nyjuror._gov_erie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6366/5055/files/jspdf_autotable_add_image.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0650/0769/files/ecological_systems_theory_bronfenbrenner.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000878e.bin
abf472611af57d1b81c9238b8b3786980312aa62c57417822262300d3d68704a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x878E 25044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d547.bin
38ea866497c681fe9318830054a81a1e60acc68a5f67942ef40ed061b2b77710
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD547 5080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6b2.bin
d6bbc810dc94576d1f5a86edea18d8f051ff4b9db65188beb00645c4d9990eee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B2 12404 bytes