Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebc923edb484a72a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 03:17:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d0d4ae8ab349982d57545d4658d01911 SHA-1: 79bd094cd0ee6bc3d6ed3d62c3e4c5206e4c3641 SHA-256: ebc923edb484a72afe3d0d730e9f3185eac06ae2bc8fc4be84ff2206218529d5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on Shopify. One prominent link directs to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.ru', which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same academic-themed lure and the malicious redirector URL, indicating a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=academic+performance+of+students+definition
    • http://repobutox.princeofpeaceracine.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378970/buniradesivevowusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5830/6965/files/mimajogaxenopotodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54341666742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3309/1480/files/bogekeriz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3785/9735/files/english_synonyms_word_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1733/0075/files/poem_barolong_seboni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9809/5272/files/nogut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9714/6019/files/batewogogobamej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3553/files/58296023757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5669/2390/files/chicken_run_full_movie_3gp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4220/files/bed_sheet_clips_bed_bath_and_beyond.pdf
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/alamosbasement/
    • 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_off00005c90.bin
2674f0377334caa806e31014a2f5ec5b17060cec51a04928ca8e8918b762b441
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C90 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e51.bin
c03783a679790442bfe3d8a9b1524c2322d9c241cf82df620f8570b5b79a9b43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E51 9700 bytes