Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce857152e81cd23b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:25:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 255d116d87a2de7c99679316f995c7a6 SHA-1: 74ce652125bf8baba1683d6a68c4aacdd32107df SHA-256: ce857152e81cd23bdd78b5b9bfee9f8a40e524c2886f28271b567e05809b1dc1
154 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 disguised with the text 'Last spring grieg sheet music'. This suggests a social engineering lure to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The PDF also contains a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis.

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=last+spring+grieg+sheet+music
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2093/5590/files/satellite_altimetry_over_oceans_and_land_surfaces.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2480/0154/files/astm_a105n_standard.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4680/5408/files/82659085156.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3103/6053/files/rovanegoviviwinipilano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1637/1867/files/rejulot.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97aff7_12a0c33cd4c04c019d909b41d3e99538.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1072f2984b824961b8490174f6a3f09d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e5d97_53787a5559a84ce5a1d21bd15ea40641.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc15ef_56008965da324fee92ed2f8b2e3ab6f0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/inon_zur_leliana_s_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5007/3240/files/11706923596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3678/files/64184500078.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0055/1830/files/asphalt_6_apk_mod.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_off0000560b.bin
c63f9bf2df33eb7f9cfd55526974fa6c69ec73e329c3cbdac7a937a27cd08789
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x560B 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000067c5.bin
302f2352926beb44a2553a34fa531580f1b62cf44af9c016db7f49326f61e9f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C5 10204 bytes