Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b976f595954af4ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 09:34:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d04ebc7dfacd4358f448b202c2aff4af SHA-1: 7f8984a9072fc4b49d4090edd9e952da74b9a234 SHA-256: b976f595954af4efae300f661fafb3b8a6dd77d4b61b127cce75381ae0bdaa2b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, disguised as a chemistry syllabus. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the redirector link as the primary attack vector.

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=chemistry+syllabus+pdf
    • http://files.slsfnc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379774/xevofuveji.pdf
    • http://files.ninjoga.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776111/kamapalub-kiwile-sizowuja-rotilupojes.pdf
    • http://files.body-knowledge.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/2094315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5322/files/koxogogilevamogero.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7827/0619/files/zulukejoguxunepakoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4930/3720/files/jibufuwiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7210/2308/files/lukosuguwediwimafemiga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/chesapeake_public_schools_calendar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3699/0885/files/levaxanurupuxetojike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5269/5703/files/kigomitogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7030/7995/files/geluwaxavefefepefigabof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4546/9858/files/46965592545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7824/6815/files/83576950533.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1614/2491/files/wordly_wise_book_8_lesson_6_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9892/3427/files/bujogezidanom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5189/0341/files/32809529509.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_off00007065.bin
78353e230d88fe3072fbc2d028ffdcf55c2dfefc66f84050348e1f15ecf0a88e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7065 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082a4.bin
e58a1c57fd93bd6740b45e3a87bdbafceae55917dcfe6870637f02664fd4bb70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82A4 9832 bytes