Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d28301ee99b2a7c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:31:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0c2e91f919f2478f48f3ce36b6441f9 SHA-1: bbf40cb6fc5ce8dfbebbd8de67a756de6a172a85 SHA-256: d28301ee99b2a7c9ee22e15ff24aebf3e35d62170bd4edf9d48c324fead6b5f3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=simplicial+objects+in+algebraic+topo'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=simplicial+objects+in+algebraic+topo
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6176/2455/files/20953691088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/52597333731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/6092/0219/files/10th_class_compartment_date_sheet_2019_hbse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7925/4694/files/54208576438.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0076/5336/files/34799571588.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_a1f26bc8a7cb4d9da55785c6d34e94bf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67264452348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4600/1045/files/schools_of_psychology_behaviorism.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wizivudid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7297/0133/files/read_line_by_line_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/libidurekatomanazavevufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8518/5702/files/pekigenebo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007539.bin
0702a50abfc3e31876df79821e93855f646b8cf23396a9288b156ebd3d8f0e59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7539 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008807.bin
b15c6d072e75a28f7a0d1bb069aa6e5190a9caac9cf46185eefa0270f5def55f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8807 15048 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b79d.bin
962fe5214ccf15fd9c7bf638d4a846121f8cc47dc7bcbb8aa5e09fe28b32904a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB79D 16288 bytes