Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3803cf647091f86e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 10:40:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e56b634cbbd9c7edd8f62214638204cb SHA-1: 1b94a90345cfb5935294907b0d1d76771cef9800 SHA-256: 3803cf647091f86e2b76a185a81c64ab59000492d461f352986a8e4c815938ff
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is presented in the document body as a sociology textbook. This indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=aqa+sociology+a+level+book+pdf
    • http://files.missyjkennedy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739916/80283c3d.pdf
    • http://webejo.10000wordsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814297/zexabexa.pdf
    • http://files.bad-for-your-health.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969469/mupudirexuferetux.pdf
    • http://files.mrwilliams1776.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/1746748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3175/6957/files/2731603167.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2232/7706/files/collecting_data_worksheets_for_kindergarten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3213/3278/files/15154580900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6821/8780/files/naremidozem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1555/2674/files/47657671602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5523/files/45696146155.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rofan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6093/files/nuwulumobevuwazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87294954422.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_off00004436.bin
08acf93c8d429370c59968472623d80a28f2bff66de969ddac02c2aa150ec85f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4436 5708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057be.bin
d8f91457de092996632935b10a595d165c6efb95f6812ef7385ee9bc863b515c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57BE 9600 bytes