Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 844042aee9cacaa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 15:30:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c7033e187b8fd549b764d8eb359d4f2 SHA-1: e6483c1d7a885b74690950b3191b3d3f1f202c73 SHA-256: 844042aee9cacaa70856e81a07599b53b080b01715d74a150f41d4e8d7b9a0bb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link that is disguised as a free Spotify APK download. The link leads to 'ttraff.ru', which is known for malicious redirection. The document body and embedded URLs further support this, with a large number of links pointing to various PDF files, likely part of a link farm to improve SEO for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=spotify+free+apk+old+version
    • http://files.supportingpresence.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856257/nuzowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7042/2180/files/common_core_math_worksheets_3rd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8919/9268/files/97152813866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/229258309.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1102/2756/files/knock_knees_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7522/1144/files/nelson_grade_12_biology_textbook_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4434/6792/files/donatiguzotipefilujizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6710/5687/files/8694410896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4827/9957/files/89703125519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3722/1276/files/87983271536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7318/2625/files/anarchism_and_moral_philosophy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8893/files/78858258241.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_off00005eb4.bin
0d4099b76b6226d771d788d46e1c8209a41911c6053a53ae2ac41bcd3820a6ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EB4 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007110.bin
1ec16700c61156a6fa4c135c3483ebeae09af65bb4330fe8ce5002d640e9faa2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7110 10364 bytes