Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b16baca53d11b676…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 06:24:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e3a4f822c0ae376773a5ae8e75f28aad SHA-1: 8c5d147db4a8e1fc62827dac582a475ac394476b SHA-256: b16baca53d11b67665073b63bff27a4abd0c680a7fb5d58bcace2697408748fb
154 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'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The primary malicious link is likely intended to redirect users to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=diabetes+canada+clinical+practice+guidelines+2019
    • http://files.carletoncampusconservatives.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814989/1027037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8995/8814/files/coursera_machine_learning_andrew_ng.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9643/2021/files/mathematical_symbols.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/wubokoxupofuvegewoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3190/3902/files/klasifikasi_acetobacter_xylinum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8581/4173/files/58801821643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0119/2352/files/muredobenelokux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6716/2276/files/zubedusulodevexiga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5749/4686/files/weird_anime_faces.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6590/8136/files/63054751655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2505/6412/files/basic_electronics_components_checking.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/46176848168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6457/files/historia_del_cristianismo_primitivo.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_off000068c3.bin
1b2029562a36a59d02b946d8637b2b8eca7be90d5dedc88728253f9e055d082e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68C3 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007be9.bin
7fb7995bd123e10aa29b723b6a11fa51ade68bc43c14303d9575a957a4bf8b08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE9 10472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009fb3.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FB3 4324 bytes