Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c310fc4e2267e01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 19:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc50c994c6e0625638cd819bc02a27ed SHA-1: 5a6a065e545fb95f39a2964dcc80664d5584260e SHA-256: 8c310fc4e2267e0131db9424d5e1f12fa359f7c3fbc6a7a5e74b6a5c9b1072c7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised with a keyword related to FDA process validation. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and keyword, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous links to cdn.shopify.com, while many are benign, suggests a potential link farm for distributing malicious content.

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=process+validation+guideline+fda
    • http://files.thenorthbowlrefinery.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860938/jisatevijokid-jelegufup-rorusagogider.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6001/6790/files/speedbit_video_downloader.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1263/6322/files/14354607751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9088/7335/files/bebab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0633/4888/files/68249071875.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2038/1342/files/14325426656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9179/5873/files/sika_backing_rod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6713/8470/files/big_data_survey_technologies_opportunities_and_challenges.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/active_passive_sentences.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2123/6384/files/6802313464.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5494/0828/files/can_you_refill_a_bic_lighter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1282/2939/files/tecnologia_da_informao_concurso.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_off0000dccd.bin
a9640d0a3a607a6795dd1eb2401e319c13e598378da1a1c21d6cedc66fae540d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCD 5132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee4a.bin
771720657d35b09bae8c0835e6b73b544942ce73766f944dacf8a0edd1bf3f55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4A 10564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011233.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11233 4324 bytes