Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed5011a2cad0d4a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 15:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd9e254ddaa47be3552da810ba0ec598 SHA-1: 0978dc3b180ba1424f6d6473c7e977801895a1d4 SHA-256: ed5011a2cad0d4a794c646b02813b1f9b589b0436395588af88ad7aef9ca07f2
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with 16 external PDF links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `ttraff.ru`. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=calisthenics+beginner+pdf`, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution lure.

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=calisthenics+beginner+pdf
    • http://files.danerestorativejustice.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637239/ea114773d.pdf
    • http://files.boardandpark.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482822/405aeb953f7ef.pdf
    • http://files.gulfbreezeschoolofmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606854/6150435.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5592/2852/files/3537607939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1224/4134/files/kivano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4802/4741/files/fujesalefugafemilogezed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2739/0887/files/adapted_physical_education_and_sport_5th_edition_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65496272691.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1701/7243/files/81643229494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8901/6472/files/nelinu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4419/8805/files/98541836900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ganisififado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6495/0945/files/68413878721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0703/2990/files/dukubafonebu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3356/7125/files/liwowewamofotupadari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0563/9836/files/24112779755.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_off000069a5.bin
19c2572fdebc87681a7f4704329f58acc682187836140e93808c9014d3e28c41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69A5 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c26.bin
f617a472908d5a2943a5da9d09c999f1fa21703f7c0640a6ab9d04852746faa7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C26 10472 bytes