Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd75d0183a1bb899…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 13eb91133708c2ab66d279c329decfa9 SHA-1: 0dfbc405ae5eba2d0898c8bcf73e5fc2f732a2e9 SHA-256: cd75d0183a1bb8997c958c2053b13d99440772e7a820fd23e54fcbfe2a620b94
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, also contains this URL and numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=beyond+the+sky+xenoblade+sheet+music
    • http://files.cumbriasculptors.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874110/nojotekesowun.pdf
    • http://files.gardenincubator.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406735/3146367.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3391/1705/files/chamonix_snow_report_ski_club.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3022/4794/files/wirofilozazijekusikitulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9978/1288/files/24132539667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5440/7578/files/binomial_distribution_proof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3651/7286/files/zunegadox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4087/4408/files/44641897946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2920/8992/files/ganevunubikivufobolug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1126/0062/files/eclipse_free_for_windows_8._1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6546/6270/files/java_2d_vector.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/4791/9272/files/perciform_fish_tree.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1641/3607/files/lalunojelidiwefi.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_off00005d21.bin
45ab9ba633ef17323e50a3a6134900679704d35ae7cd25c5d9ebbe80c982c38c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D21 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb6.bin
00b62523bcfc38741946be01594855e533ba99f271cad79dd63fcf4f3eeb8170
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB6 10024 bytes