Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9bfe30a7c91999c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 07:31:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a7fc1480afd27847c3354b1b0f43dcc SHA-1: a5c0c94ae1107303e8bd5a185dbd4b297ae9a827 SHA-256: e9bfe30a7c91999cea827adb2920cd30936f7b43ff0dd1ae7cb6274f8d4095d7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a job search query. This suggests a phishing attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the delivery 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=alaska+information+technology+jobs
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3b469bc7ffd8453a8526982b3674e4be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bf302_8a0a4ef3f09248959847d3a3920281ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_39f0f66d1d6e4fa6876cafb002f957c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_997ae683a9c349bf93a1d04be82e9c43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07ef24_2230d7bf912d42a6933c016e625d7e1c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cfc61_29f607e3b30448c2baac72a2e4ec94a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c4177_08173ac016994d68bc0101ab56ca010c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/39cb9d_15108ae2dd4847ffb5a5c62e09dc35fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a0d5f7a0aaf34f9e8a31f1af57986d26.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6745/7182/files/57514071853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8099/7269/files/psychology_chapter_3_class_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/63269154894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0965/4436/files/ubuntu_remote_desktop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4121/6917/files/du_video_recorder_pro_apk.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_off00005a08.bin
7f05d49575a84bc31cfb2a38ed34a38b5fdd5af916baee75b4d83528efb8ec4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A08 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d3a.bin
5bebec306a2193632c6b27512f6acca8c51c7226f42cf9283201e25a143a9424
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D3A 10248 bytes