Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8c6ff15302f4a9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 02:16:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e69c7c0c0640e537e653fdb680cb2089 SHA-1: 647dec4d243667f4f1dc8e8eec3262fc293cd728 SHA-256: b8c6ff15302f4a9dcc8816ecad590881b006d334e3cb986bf8f5b5e8c483381d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a biography of Bertolt Brecht, which redirects to a known malicious URL (ttraff.ru). This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and multiple heuristics indicate malicious redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded malicious URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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=bertolt+brecht+biography+pdf
    • http://zagole.en.inmatesvoices.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740541/3518295.pdf
    • http://files.drainplumberpro.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775085/dfc70c.pdf
    • http://files.lyndolkeith.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483147/zolavepibawova.pdf
    • http://files.heritagegroveestates.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383924/vuxunof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0008/5160/files/bivigixomovoti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7749/1098/files/kenidolominojitejulofife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/jinuwimazuvafagew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0812/3303/files/25889147405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5183/5801/files/pabuvon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2390/8520/files/pdf_annotator_7._0._0._702_crack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5598/8374/files/59001860363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1321/8210/files/xutugavokezoworaselepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6467/8807/files/automotive_chassis_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/fesozug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6772/7269/files/igcse_chemistry_past_papers_2020.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_off00015ced.bin
23e714f7209bda06f6a556c1ecf051eaaa1b2b27818669ce22eb363d857d20f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CED 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016fc6.bin
c27bf1ab6106943b0133a570cb3c18fae175c7c9e1a2cb1ccb78998b45e04e30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FC6 16124 bytes