Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c63ae8482fabc12a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 11:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2bb2d5beb00dc7de7c585369ebd55870 SHA-1: 40f93db51302dd68cf45c133b5fb982e92b9fe5b SHA-256: c63ae8482fabc12ac3ed29552c653600ec8a1cea1071310d4ac3fd9a4246e303
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, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on Shopify and other domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to a malicious site via a deceptive link.

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=printable+math+games+3rd+grade+pdf
    • http://files.skatecanadamountforest.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380759/4547810.pdf
    • http://rapet.thegirlsofig.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740069/fcef4f9370434b4.pdf
    • http://files.publichealthmuseum.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384789/a826b1b39.pdf
    • http://zemilo.ilovehomecleanhome.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872149/likupiketib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/58622691094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8130/9085/files/dragon_compendium_volume_1_3._5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4519/9784/files/87714462368.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8978/0124/files/chromecast_vpn_workaround_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/48874837725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2795/4853/files/43881494773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3387/7915/files/3954275028.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0271/4533/files/55948328568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7170/8065/files/archtop_guitar_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0885/2117/files/rodetaf.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_off0000692f.bin
eaa9e46c7ea0be994155a87e365a1d8f33ed5ba8ce8baa173886549eb8bfd8f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x692F 5760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c92.bin
f2d76b4680f476b81fc80b55984e36e3d59b9a2f8051edab59dfda904ab06f40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C92 10556 bytes