Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3758fb877a0c20f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:51:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e9475cc6112e13418c9f30487a89ea9 SHA-1: d4812cc43e171900e7b6526a85cbc59b85d08bd1 SHA-256: 3758fb877a0c20f677604d5c835c807f8bd4c235a0e9fa638c9082272cec9d73
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic, suggesting a lure for users searching for 'Telc English A2 Test PDF'. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link farm indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

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=telc+english+a2+test+pdf
    • http://files.mymokshayoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454207/nopezobigu-dugoxituxu-pupadoganado-pifimezora.pdf
    • http://files.skylinescotties.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398144/1286120.pdf
    • http://regefawev.evelineverhulst.nl/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/6281708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3000/2336/files/sutasiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7269/files/babuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8694/6206/files/vagusebobog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1249/7312/files/gufap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1510/9797/files/netgear_n150_wireless_router_wnr1000_v3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8107/1782/files/28140585557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0210/9856/files/exclusive_agency_vs_exclusive_right_to_sell.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3056/9382/files/wudetororo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3854/6840/files/88156243515.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6165/files/sirusuderurofune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5733/2895/files/cervical_spine_stretching_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5351/files/jebijefokulamibo.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_off000067c2.bin
2a59a2fd5752f3b018384d3b0a8409183e4d0ea15ad3d48e63ffa75a5c544857
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C2 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a2c.bin
3f58b5956ee6f63be8fcea219e5f8e0892d51bae5addcace70d12ae490c8e9e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A2C 10120 bytes