Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a8f4982e818347…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 07:23:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc5356898118ae170de3a6ababa6b067 SHA-1: ae8dcbf4a1e69acafa5c23b6d93b106f7ddef2f6 SHA-256: f8a8f4982e81834739fb7b1030f158e0eae13a74d1d25bb7103ea23957c7ea9f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=marginal%20costing%20pdf%20download'. This URL is likely used to deliver a malicious payload or redirect the user to a phishing site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic.

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/wb?keyword=marginal%20costing%20pdf%20download
    • http://files.totalfireprotectionsd.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681062/3429067.pdf
    • http://files.bridgnorthmalevoicechoir.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606813/5201810.pdf
    • http://files.cjstravelconnections.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741486/e2f0219d59.pdf
    • http://files.mickbrennansabsolutefitness.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/mirubukajo_lomomuzosam_pused_topiwotev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/73336711088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7578/9215/files/log_log_plot_matlab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7302/7749/files/givekozorupit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6038/7227/files/fojutesegisugekuzume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4714/7928/files/baldor_solucionario.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7374/7609/files/zafubefovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6076/files/32138254707.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7565/7110/files/xebojimezivorovuwozadetel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8343/9003/files/gojuzugogeredepuzelivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6482/6773/files/49258648541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15750122344.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b1a.bin
28cf8740614ffd3e69d1c978523fb4eaa0a5bc3411dd78b99526e9563d7ad234
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B1A 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008daa.bin
e0b3f30b9712de09c752cedab0c66a26c668fcbf42905814f1c580844aad8a7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DAA 16116 bytes