Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba5687fab90e442…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-09-02 22:01:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 053bee400252bda7ce93c7801594f188 SHA-1: 3afe828c74b380156b7a273d9586b764f6b96302 SHA-256: cba5687fab90e442007a52bbd4a11a774ae99e23ef557f7234b334996ac6cf62
150 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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=reporting+hierarchical+regression+analysis'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a potential SEO poisoning or spamming campaign. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence for the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=reporting+hierarchical+regression+analysis
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/38155157219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/pilatikosofevafe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2914/files/factorio_cheat_sheet_0._16.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6035/5487/files/best_reader_android_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lovukapovilelogitolosir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3873/5517/files/powemabuzexinifekobigid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3549/2503/files/mezumowopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1537/2949/files/back_pain_exercises_arc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3070/7356/files/hard_decimal_addition_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5217/9364/files/18723380995.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf4b339f1a4347c79ef99a2861765bba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_548c94c05dee4178b9bbfeab9398e19c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6404/1373/files/ffmpeg_convert_to_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8938/5890/files/fabewowajixegokizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3027/3448/files/36479306263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35543542817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0645/1094/files/82077678050.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_off00006400.bin
a85e3ca69abc01f37e29b76dae52bdafe6194a4079092d5d970af608f7f1b0c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6400 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007614.bin
a385b53f1010eaa80ad28a4a9e3e02273269a37343d11dcf170d829f9b91eb4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7614 10968 bytes