Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5007a266f6d21c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 07:27:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 352c8e512e3248e2f3c40bbe20aa861a SHA-1: 0be05ef6fe4655dfe6c960eedefb4fc563049bce SHA-256: f5007a266f6d21c1da4852f5f78b3adec1da794c5224ad1514251d7de665c10b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious download or exploit. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to 'java 8 32 bit windows xp', suggesting a lure for software downloads. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=java+8++32+bit+windows+xp
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73cb9e_22a4475c6b894b06ac821845e30209ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_697aaf178e0b4b4287b4993b826fa0c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7baf93_f4654bb28ddd4f258a98fbaf74710246.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fab6ea02989040ffa9f81bd0e7f73aa6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e7e4a0_e13325c0d2354fb2b94ad89ea42467ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_528d1ab793c44747adf1876d4b407448.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a43ec6_4900220feb81475584711d503f11bfcb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87b9a8_3f3b42ad4bc84f829a7fb2dc33fb747d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f103bb_e5cc0d16c5fe41bfa2fccebc0aa145ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f9392a70f8ec467386929bbfc7143704.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f0e57_5a4053f7473a447fbe202d1a57acfddb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2fe6e23ca9a04f1699d0d53e64c6856c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_b8e2e87a0ceb427ca2e6a87ffe7fe341.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5621/7750/files/37785397868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/61102570550.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_off00005831.bin
c4c6cb697d67bac0030f81f3a408dc9096aa9219103651793ff5157e17e78e7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5831 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ba5.bin
8e6825add71662627a4876388b7130fe4cb762cf7c092c7f04e35e139abd5d74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA5 11272 bytes