Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6c1af979d5aadfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:10:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 351b7b8c7bc5a89c3f6855704774da35 SHA-1: fcb32da83bf493aa7b474edb8a2483c30958f73e SHA-256: b6c1af979d5aadfab2ef5a4d747ccb6da5ec0f6940463a57ae72328a34d202dc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments suggesting it is a lure related to employment appeals. The presence of numerous links to Shopify PDFs, some of which are benign, indicates a potential SEO poisoning or link farm strategy to distribute the malicious PDF. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=unfair+dismissal+appeal+letter+template+uk
    • http://leneke.spectrumradiopettswood.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776795/mesirivotabirebo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1095/files/daketisopuzarowudob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3331/2925/files/carol_of_the_bells_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/57936892783.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6871/1321/files/first_500_prime_numbers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7356/7894/files/susiwov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5834/0774/files/22904374630.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1825/9365/files/2015_nissan_sentra_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4203/8182/files/secure_vpn_premium_free_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/5791/3512/files/38860489509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1814/9285/files/anywhereusb_5_firmware.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_off0000ccfd.bin
b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCFD 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6f8.bin
c6f6222945c7b6bd679a3d67395cc9e245a5f73f40b7181372480638277815e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F8 5240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8b8.bin
65cc6176676c45bfee28e23875e8d59505e89704796c965b18c32521b398a46e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B8 9868 bytes