Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ca646ca2f8cba1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 19:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4c2f71a67abfa7d6bd6d2705d8215f0 SHA-1: 249487801269a38d37a4a6fa760acd4b170e3580 SHA-256: 7ca646ca2f8cba1e49b5e69fd4ca6c2bddf0cc5959b75f3a721e60c29532efe7
152 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, disguised as an installation guide. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links to PDFs hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself points to a redirection attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=edureka+informatica+installation+guide
    • http://files.cafemaxx.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969659/d4d4b56.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4488/7963/files/25953382966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0119/2352/files/32762077541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6091/9461/files/55519536366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2173/7882/files/poe_temporal_incursion_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4708/2389/files/vlookup_excel_for_different_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4492/files/56012432618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8909/8907/files/52024089320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9275/5103/files/90579157813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5332/5215/files/7th_grade_common_core_math_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5469/3537/files/drug_metabolism_phase_1_and_phase_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7122/3446/files/bondi_rescue_episode_guide_wiki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8570/1019/files/aachen_tourist_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6635/8934/files/1037408827.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_off00005e15.bin
72b44b790025143283418f4e373db09131a702588d75716cab99e9772c5fa2eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E15 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007036.bin
e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7036 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000078c4.bin
e1044288098898a9b4dff67254f2a92d87c9db3ed5a9a31fec49db042303a7ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C4 10032 bytes