Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a288eb7f4aa7df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:26:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 107c1334321152c826057cf73f1c3a70 SHA-1: 44d44c750faba1a74dabb9256d15d3b5fa405acb SHA-256: a6a288eb7f4aa7dfd06248bd060f8c27023365047dfb34707ae502d2be3e9fd8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to 'Bleacher report nfl week 4 picks', suggesting a lure to entice users to click the link. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking and distribute the malicious content.

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=bleacher+report+nfl+week+4+picks
    • http://files.ingersollchoralsociety.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695302/zivus_sowixirijon_gavawuxoje.pdf
    • http://gixarenug.okgfdhotcpha.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774978/1584510.pdf
    • http://files.germanscalzo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681456/5564080.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1660/0227/files/guxubeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71340125447.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4267/files/44685708269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0891/5613/files/analiticka_geometrija_knjiga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9511/3374/files/popupejikilekuweg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8496/files/kudugufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9776/6553/files/surah_al_mulk_alkalam._pk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5667/6510/files/forifenirifoteveliguzeteb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0113/4747/files/jerabaseda.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_off00008f89.bin
efd3fb93428645d8e6beb3c017cc9e1cf608417584a4501db2c282f498faaa55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F89 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a1ef.bin
89aa4e78c0d734321c08ed9f624e070d9084c01c10fda158232562dcdc2301fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1EF 10384 bytes