Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7e8fdde361550a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 11:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fbfdac1719aae1e2b35ad70fd223a0e3 SHA-1: ff4c48f522f72d92e542ed7bb1eae02c1be13532 SHA-256: b7e8fdde361550a73ffce96ab063929c4dd23bf416baa323b27525650392f2cf
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. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm pattern, with numerous links hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URL within the document body, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cantilever+bridge+pdf', is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure 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=cantilever+bridge+pdf
    • http://zakowomo.purplerun.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070786/dunovumibizamem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4467/files/sheetrock_all_purpose_joint_compound_ingredients.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4014/4534/files/1031048500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4278/0837/files/lista_de_alimentos_para_diabeticos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1065/3338/files/vupekiwolemaxubufowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4902/4679/files/bg_country_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3415/files/87033325661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1161/0536/files/36557541451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5913/5132/files/dobumofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2529/1671/files/wobedexozututuxakumabiwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3278/6597/files/ffmpeg_remove_duplicate_frames.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_off0000c31c.bin
1818fbb45bf845f19a4e53a54278f24970a35a63f54ff92bbec56677012ce727
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC31C 4932 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3f2.bin
2f01d3d484f6012625c22a82e0cdc821f072d0961217aa18cdda78881f4ed70b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F2 10052 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f618.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF618 4324 bytes