Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1550e7f01d7a189…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2020-09-11 09:38:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7e0333acc996403d18321ca38e54cc4 SHA-1: ad9bd061e7621ee47423fd8f12b17f347c3f4126 SHA-256: e1550e7f01d7a189001370e35ccd04edaaaa499e942937e6cd784f04bb0050b2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=tantya+bhil+song', which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt.

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=tantya+bhil+song
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_34f9e194ccb64aceb41d7acff4cd9e7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4733ca_988a0a96b41a4ecf9122ee045e49bd6a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_119944b4b5ee4258828b5250fe89c084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/4455/3123/files/81659074130.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8879/6064/files/2589012793.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_40df9668f89a428288dfde853e03a26d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_1f1188d93f36410b945707edc5eaa44d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0af078_d074317e763d45e89d677380e97bf31b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9505/5777/files/labetalol_davis_drug_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4994/3202/files/dipule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2009/0517/files/pajusigeza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5398/5442/files/polaroid_snap_camera_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5869/9159/files/how_to_make_teamspeak_server.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_off00015cdb.bin
6b1e6e9aca713bc505ef616e2621171524e9a94ae105553802c47f66794a9018
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CDB 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016e0b.bin
b4a42c22b7e4b7fe760cd907a7b0b2fd3d5b1841ce79ee4ed6aa3e3b75f04326
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E0B 10376 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000191b2.bin
8f1633c17c786066615b70abb43dcae21c4cd47da134f1e3cd4e8bbdf40cb416
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x191B2 3532 bytes