Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94163ef6591520b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-09-01 04:01:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0ebbfaaab17e5f31faf5f718e18f4b29 SHA-1: 83c54c07d38b923258a18e3a7d51ec8cb77699e5 SHA-256: e94163ef6591520b3a04380608e0ae8b18cafd9398555d5dfbfa06a8df28fcb7
152 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 pointing to Shopify domains. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and several benign-looking URLs, suggesting a lure or redirection mechanism.

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=android+custom+checkbox+drawable+size
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72518400380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7108/6492/files/birthday_songs_for_brother.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6065/3219/files/nosolalur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/vafawiwisibotomo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1030/8765/files/adobe_flash_player_10_for_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0342/8510/files/3003783550.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7352/files/niwisuluwofig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1983/8119/files/67399707280.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3eed2b_d0a31e9c19654edf8d659afffa42fe31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4655a326cd484d3082b8df47b7d8b63f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d877d489ded745c4a13b317d7fd2fbaa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3716386159e84bb3a521068b19b856cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_76c144c1d3b7491aa1deccc89f04822f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_d2508eb41ba3460ba30e15369487a193.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/105a8c_c9f8fde5b5114ac79ba6a70c8c67eba5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0ebc1f_fd52f4c38e204d8fbe36370531e20872.pdf
    • http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android
    • 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_off00008fcb.bin
3926a3ba9275c508120ffc165ba1e4256c8a33b803c79e15748277e1686d7b80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FCB 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a2af.bin
81eaa70fee5f5052a9ab35603ec2e08bf9b537518ae45da01e69c787c755c28c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2AF 14984 bytes