Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a741e7b76e266ed1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e6cda6b26636cfeab50b05156b33b2c SHA-1: e38a24b316ae282fd1f1d40499d5ce41b74e8aa8 SHA-256: a741e7b76e266ed13eb9be12e212616d2fb76ead12df565230369ce8c589bde0
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'. This link is presented within the document body, disguised as a 'ministry of finance indonesia annual report'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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=ministry+of+finance+indonesia+annual+report
    • http://files.vogelnest.co/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681823/kosafegukawasomitiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5723/3576/files/nepowalegepiraw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2009/9488/files/30651967905.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4126/5566/files/3380747481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6546/5245/files/19214337726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/rumoxizubuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0049/4237/files/iti_online_form_2018_admission_delhi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0301/7373/files/20115312320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9787/files/67092457835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3505/7559/files/sql_server_2012_express_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/1297022614.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_off0000423a.bin
b68dc30864addbafcbd23900e5d0db37c8913120ccb0de1282bc2479b3f6d1bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x423A 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000542c.bin
5a1e193e15532b30be533ea2772f5a6fffc8afca9155f7d42d1040d49586c334
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x542C 9676 bytes