Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ede7ebf7a2980754…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 11:17:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f28c88955e71703e766925b78f0a3602 SHA-1: 93da7b76533a227ac5df0966d1d58416cef4cde2 SHA-256: ede7ebf7a2980754d6281d970de501795be6abb3df0b4a8ba795609211a10749
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=community+language+learning'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=community+language+learning
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0305/1171/files/rujatemuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/0624/7332/files/comparative_and_superlative_degree_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1054/6070/files/deep_pocket_full_fitted_sheet_only.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8393/0527/files/cantilever_beam_problems.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d2bfe7550c034fc0a0d9026a4d0f3553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8651/1264/files/ending_sound_worksheets_for_kindergarten_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0996/files/compress_file_size_online_reduce.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7224/2342/files/41756214501.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/world_political_map_high_resolution_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4115/3439/files/trueman_s_elementary_biology_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0053/6986/files/zubilazufoz.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000752e.bin
d6cb31e1df61c3707efe5c641f92e4c3e55803573ff15fcabc938a5c33ce59c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x752E 4832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000858e.bin
48df3e6942003d28c10c690489ac0dd33cca7cba36bc648cc96320ba87340920
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x858E 10000 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a7b7.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7B7 4324 bytes