Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca1b748066cc557…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-09-01 22:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3afcf2f34c799b4797b8990affbf602 SHA-1: 6f66901736b2ef3d405387c276615a80795a20c6 SHA-256: 3ca1b748066cc557073a07388140b5bd35f8a281f288257a132bcbd764d4fdc6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.ru', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an 'Aggiornamento android oreo' (Android Oreo Update), suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to obscure the primary malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=aggiornamento+android+oreo
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/2920/9759/files/automation_in_clinical_biochemistry_laboratory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3656/files/wusevamebonuwalitat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9875/0629/files/tesamelapuposifab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82e8055f5a22495692bf1ad55f98445c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/daca0d_625c7905b3204cd58791f0d3fc6a23ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fdd6c2_9048cfadebda447da825e6312b3a8e9b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48d9a1_f33884a8df2c4be5a1147165763f85f8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1570/7551/files/duzokumitupelatugapabux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9313/9357/files/55943562516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0765/4563/files/libros_sobre_auditoria_interna.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cb927_5a011d3ae4ce4c48ad76bc73833730be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/54fa57_f568ec610e6242e4901dac48a9cf6495.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a3912266a6694ec7a4038ccb1f1778ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/930050_215af0b2f2f54201a9271b933bcd3ccd.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_off00007da5.bin
0d78334afc0e236defbf7426655e0cf87100f1139f1292ff66ec54994fd163d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DA5 4924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e4d.bin
44af48e4879852d815fdc82e30526ce09497857e5014e828b4c0910837c36a97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E4D 15840 bytes