Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e876139201f9534e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 06:51:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e93723cc225784a3ec41cf3b75ce7e61 SHA-1: c5e8228c3da7e18caa778ef370dd6276191b9573 SHA-256: e876139201f9534ee6fa55b51eeb177b1d9689a814d4346530a8215ec09725ef
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure the user to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution behaviors.

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=confessions+of+a+scholarship+winner
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8212/0357/files/femojasepulusonanuna.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9730/0885/files/76458628441.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6465/6026/files/acls_provider_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/850f07_67a3658707f34939b6ccfbd2e189d94b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_8145ec94d5f443839b01b78cfe25477f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ab72e_c9aa1d7e7b9645eab1d2bebba94b12ba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/58351165364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4416/7064/files/destination_b1_descargar_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2634/6147/files/sullivan_college_algebra_10th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3608/1308/files/tuxonoxutokudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2960/2205/files/volarilumefakubixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6411/4852/files/32844768305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3304/8741/files/90335397136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0491/2031/files/fokeseg.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_off00005af6.bin
4c5eacfd2b594d96aee748573ee6d6145513f9b0e55c2a8963d952a28763892b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AF6 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c5d.bin
51930f670ac2993f31e0622a111dbfff73aeddef551903396b7613161772563a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C5D 10624 bytes