Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c956435a2effee40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 18:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d77933c8683e6688fec37bfa8dd1cffa SHA-1: c45045075a7f07fcdcf9edf77f0c47bcf95102ea SHA-256: c956435a2effee40a02565c2dff1a198baf313515036af85c0a2d8b85686b5f2
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, which is designed to lure users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and keywords related to 'tennis elbow therapy exercises pdf', suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to shopify.com, indicates a link farm used for SEO manipulation to increase the visibility of 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=tennis+elbow+therapy+exercises+pdf
    • http://files.tayloredteachings.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857114/a1353be3d73f.pdf
    • http://files.rocykafotografie.nl/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/28baa19.pdf
    • http://files.minlatonchocolaterie.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871433/suruza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/4217/1038/files/mathematics_vision_project.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0933/4696/files/zomowonibixaridases.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8956/7650/files/66452530846.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4831/files/athens_attractions_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8684/7903/files/55379420223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1421/8143/files/fundamentals_of_general_organic_and_biological_chemistry_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1896/0545/files/19240877318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7426/4996/files/79937772881.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8906/8185/files/53958725679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/4107173541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/4540162687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4468/3419/files/panarisodixisilakelepo.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_off00006f6f.bin
3a4b604c2467c7c45063efdb779c94df27cf54254888cf96a6ee89940cb0053a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F6F 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008276.bin
badc17d7fb89abd9eab6e4ecd8d4f4e5ebd257a3dce9a4db43617affdf598e00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8276 9968 bytes