Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 452ca79a4907f51a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:17:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 283ce1772f9577727ca6c2d06502eb84 SHA-1: 40abad192e0464df766c601142b158315786dd3b SHA-256: 452ca79a4907f51a40cb8ffd4bec9e01bb22d916e307c4ad7d713f00ded6cbd4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a search result for 'best free calendar app for android phone'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious activity is the embedded malicious URL.

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=best+free+calendar+app+for+android+phone
    • http://kanokafa.bachcantatachoir.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380212/45d9c.pdf
    • http://kanokafa.bachcantatachoir.org/uploads/1/3/1
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/5025/8852/files/28398748682.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/lelarefomenepuje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0791/7729/files/jaxewuvigiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1500/1496/files/90176092746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1104/7575/files/paulk_workbench_ii.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7702/6463/files/free_download_dictionary_english_to_bengali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6876/6873/files/82555693857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2109/files/student_s_encyclopedia_of_general_knowledge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4231/6186/files/zojiwipezilukisemezal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5757/0207/files/26446035501.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0134/8255/files/zakowazuvuvum.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009d77.bin
664ac1888d48a7091205e918d16ba8bfccc1fdce3e3549334e2197e04e3ced20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D77 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aea4.bin
0b8461def7abca2d7b722a6f3e66ad8be00a59ce1d41010a2fb957e33dba7f4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEA4 10244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d1b9.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B9 4324 bytes