Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad6038f05453aabf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:22:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f06efd0688ecd3db586e13c6e10df41a SHA-1: 02407433646a1fb65f63ebd7c91847f2e2bcbad9 SHA-256: ad6038f05453aabfaa0b8b4346e7e66ed919b6437409a07d18f256a4def4db7d
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 distribute further malware. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Soluciones biologia y geologia 3 eso' and appears to be a lure to encourage clicking the embedded malicious link. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection.

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=soluciones+biologia+y+geologia+3+eso
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eed56f_ec2ed2f9f3bc437b8009715a0e3736ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4dd980_3b1bad6180134b4ea39dba75b6e6db83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c6c1_b62d928b21214fb28922e1234e4badfa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ab2735ed65648c4a259943546cac86a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7786/7422/files/nhs_elective_c_section_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4884/3934/files/54993125414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8072/0294/files/gezawirupajibuloxenuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0575/4776/files/clearance_sheet_vinyl.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1884/4322/files/zavuwesazerojib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6369/5770/files/xiloxosejasurusajilit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6401/6539/files/pitugaxotodotumowerivalor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6219719719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6177/1430/files/32709566668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1314/4482/files/fesovuvojixowebo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/8511/0952/files/8152498480.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_off00006452.bin
616f66eaa3816ac06a9cf3081a367622d2dc56ee671ed422c16e6bf393074d21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6452 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076ae.bin
207c422f4f0b09a77d6b18c6ff5f405c43c3a4c1f4d6c8b6caeb8a52cc9548a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76AE 11580 bytes