Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 303a2a2532107148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-09-02 02:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fcd55abb81b21480018968c9afc777a4 SHA-1: 28730491275b08e47ec444d49373115c5fe74b00 SHA-256: 303a2a2532107148b052b7029952a2858a048de4d180de2bb6ed7b9b1f716873
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised with a keyword related to a lab report. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via a deceptive link.

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=esterification+synthesis+of+aspirin+lab+report
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/5451/5612/files/jigsaw_piece_template_to_print.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/5834/8451/files/azerbaijan_football_league_table_and_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7098/0245/files/3275414595.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7372/4825/files/53034185163.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0709/8529/files/virtual_sd_card_editor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8918/files/github_xpath_cheatsheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9020/files/72580436652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gujogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17810153535.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0511f5_3692e8a9f9e64f079a5eaf6804f6a83d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e745be_093f7b901cdd4135b06eb2b45e68ffbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f967ac_9fd2e4ec6315428095f7c6d9c3e71d5d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f241d9_1d3165e647fe4ef9a47758a5f87ad8fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d57344134b164c258fe2b9d3c8371ebc.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_off00006e1f.bin
002670e02ad142c4b64f0a581d9a708350dc5391ebc34424d64b8d0618543751
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E1F 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000802a.bin
979d101cc987db119113c4bb2f1b4d6da906af5f552cacb7ec8724da03e6d058
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802A 10132 bytes