Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9c9e3776ab16a2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14edd7e70756f49cd62a8c97fcfc61d5 SHA-1: d2513a5434f168a363acdc7079356377a89cc02e SHA-256: c9c9e3776ab16a2fc466c4b7a65c573fffd637957f6ab8e267b6014ac1bc618a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document is identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains embedded links. One link points to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The document also functions as a link farm, hosting numerous external PDF links, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The primary lure appears to be an 'engineering lab report example pdf'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirectors and link farming indicates a social engineering attack aimed at driving traffic to malicious sites.

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/wix?keyword=engineering+lab+report+example+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3422/9406/files/loxulugemejaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9347/8814/files/data_parametrik_dan_non_parametrik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/berg_balance_test_rehab_measures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0255/2742/files/growatt_inverter_spec_sheet.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3137da062c8b48e3b358b055b572269f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_1a0d93ce0a0b45e2901083aad4db871b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6693/files/10059500956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5558/files/video_compressor_android_app_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0044/7655/files/bluetooth_peripheral_device_driver_software.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15ebe2_022fb717f681467ba5c0e1581fba9f8d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0baf77_b467fc472d0643d99c24cee5024aacda.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_off0000685a.bin
8a0233c40ae3f93c80270d252eac9c11d03f7bd2384096d5fb230f6c47b3d985
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x685A 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a7e.bin
ce43ce43991e41b4875f601286e36f65e61ab1d0668e19fa313792dc375305ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A7E 10236 bytes