Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e284156ee9f69d5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:41:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f3b028aa4f663dc5bfb070a5f8ec7b0 SHA-1: 34cf04f20722e0cb2a4deda7341c2ca6c39fc713 SHA-256: e284156ee9f69d5bcc3f572653b34f693110425e46435663bad5a29dbb69b7aa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying it as a redirector link to known malicious infrastructure. It also contains a link farm with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aplikasi+belajar+bahasa+arab+gratis. The document body contains obfuscated text and metadata related to PDF creation, but no direct scripting or executable content was found within the provided evidence.

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=aplikasi+belajar+bahasa+arab+gratis
    • http://xuvarox.lj-nelson.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/65631570edb6e21.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2564/5211/files/28965159546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6756/3418/files/direct_method_and_grammar_translation_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4986/8712/files/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone_5._1_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5316/1367/files/pandora_hearts_caucus_race.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2040/9256/files/82528935664.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2793/1029/files/lovudaxoxosamaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1245/4560/files/51082706439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3151/0690/files/seredepuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9113/0536/files/preeclampsia_management_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/woziki.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_off00006766.bin
0b34d024e7b3bbf74ff268b218cd1b301f42cbe890ef88567adc68fb621f3201
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6766 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007982.bin
51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7982 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008210.bin
bdb37f0b20386dc87886e469ce06add12656ebb3a81d25cfe5c9b18b11bbff9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8210 10096 bytes