Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db741cf303b76022…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:20:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07c08dcd5713409540ca600b222858f7 SHA-1: 7b07858aecf1a2b193e8301fff5a746714012f79 SHA-256: db741cf303b7602254cf8141cd196f8640f90089adc2f17122b6e4044350cac8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one prominent link pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'battlefield 1943 theme sheet music' and references the wkhtmltopdf generator, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links, including a confirmed malicious one, supports the conclusion that this document is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=battlefield+1943+theme+sheet+music
    • http://fubagib.retroca.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381533/1392127.pdf
    • http://files.wolverinenavy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738553/420b3113e3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1466/8959/files/56146559725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8424/2337/files/kejed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2344/0799/files/c._a._m._performance_piqua_ohio_reviews.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1242/9723/files/nuwedekakerot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9471/1203/files/1830353686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6082/9087/files/xunibik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4015/2479/files/55829292500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0084/7781/files/93809484313.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6365/7119/files/algo_trading_and_dma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6205/9427/files/nomufivenutadunewufeda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/6195/4971/files/29613441058.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_off00004a72.bin
0a9dcee0151293e8094130170b6249479898d4468d6b0dd6c51172b752a14468
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A72 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005da7.bin
bcd2139023beedb44f14654d02b5c7a96cbe2916fbef6d4699b744face7c883b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DA7 15672 bytes