Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c75b526aa864a3d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 22:27:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e296d9ddba19e81578f30cc857bb3795 SHA-1: 581bd811174bb0ca420a56303ee038005b43624f SHA-256: c75b526aa864a3d7105d4764f94cd7fb338f4dacb0cf396409f8ca460254a475
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, contains the same URL and a lure related to 'Intellij format json single line'. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into visiting the malicious URL, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=intellij+format+json+single+line
    • http://files.krasnoevents.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406780/pemekojitofarim_fivezifem.pdf
    • http://files.mendyourbodymassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131484133/1287726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/siwizobudavegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8784/6806/files/97776915056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5245/8396/files/food_biochemistry_lecture_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4583/1335/files/subl_command_not_found.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0149/3142/files/12139125184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1239/6968/files/rational_expressions_worksheet_2_simplifying.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0803/1893/files/spam_bot_discord_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6659/7288/files/90723084391.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_off00005f5c.bin
4c7825e9c43a60b6f5c8dc0f56d2592c44c12f53fef8c72dd08b97116c34d192
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F5C 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000709b.bin
bf33fac9540c7e99f6676eb6c5df46a1c830c35d488170e7c500aa8382997c85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x709B 10176 bytes