Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b18cb20551b74bb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2899b96dc65d14c4dd796bf53d698157 SHA-1: 9e416682e5011893733ad9e5ccc98f20f618093b SHA-256: b18cb20551b74bb6b30261918b948c047150f69ea55369cd4cdd4f8bd538f0c6
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'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external 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=propiedades+de+las+formas+bidimensionales
    • http://files.harzaalumni.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398498/vemusub_nuxevejutase_wanaxejaxos.pdf
    • http://files.llandudnosmiles.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968943/fomezufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5838/8374/files/gifibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8022/7747/files/xemawomiduwapuzor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3504/0664/files/26660676007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6331/1520/files/rigilanukajesovotebefiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0145/4500/files/80922156709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5480/0796/files/gesatuvimezoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9132/9173/files/effective_altruism.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7034/0772/files/welowawonezaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1451/9966/files/44836091666.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5604/4959/files/catalog_of_design_patterns.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6467/1909/files/andhra_pradesh_tourist_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/2545/3471/files/ielts_writing_recent_actual_tests_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5011/4965/files/credit_note_report_in_tally_erp_9.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_off00006be3.bin
c835e4782b3827d8b553096c72d24bb44c7ac775f82b3d5e5ab30a618bf150c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BE3 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ddc.bin
7201ba607aece2a4e8fdfdfd71122318933dbba479212cccf90d95edfa36174d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DDC 10496 bytes