Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a012a4fb6b5a3c49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:24:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdd30dab20efca2071f2395aefcae307 SHA-1: 0c19fe35227e7bda5b6758fa6f3d5f4d71bc57ed SHA-256: a012a4fb6b5a3c49a96955450353c3d26dfdcec92f02cc58cb82fd0b633a8d34
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning to attract victims. 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=alfonsina+y+el+mar+partitura+para+piano+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1574/0312/files/alter_ego_4_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1877/2903/files/1984333431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6414/7609/files/43512609523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8705/3471/files/18186880888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4800/0927/files/2727507340.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_69dd957855b44b94a67058cb14dd54a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_255a84215a284ca88d45dcb08a210a2e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_ba2591f465424589ba178d2be3af94ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa4f3b97566b4178b284b2c7e1105183.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0018bb3149a436194e978a19552e0c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_4d49306c8a114ff68740664333c121f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0049ca_fa5ccbadeeb7429b9de013762de08a98.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/44b221_193926338672448cb05c1b3967c62f77.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eb243ba64c664cde867e4be476f46504.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_50f6211c317440199d0a1933d8024b7f.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_off00004bf9.bin
de3b7718071c0f1f166d4c29ca3f1c2e2e8a897dd8702304edb24dc41dfc95b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BF9 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005de1.bin
4c525c5af13cb3c69419a0e43f58ce283aeb742070e60a353a01e5080b8067f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DE1 10628 bytes