Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5d7cba3f1e2a335…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 16:32:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e29235d471240d5fabd7343bc525b115 SHA-1: b38dd15530a224df94701e9d261e8373c64e4a58 SHA-256: a5d7cba3f1e2a3354519ec994b2b3cbcc44847c7a16acf7c0479e5485db2b062
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, disguised with a search query for 'apsrtc bus pass online application pdf'. This indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to Shopify domains, likely to obscure the malicious redirector or for SEO poisoning. 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/pify?keyword=apsrtc+bus+pass+online+application+pdf
    • http://files.adultedresources.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740571/bazowawiwumi-gofasev.pdf
    • http://degodaze.ccs-coronavirus.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813306/ragig_parako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2866/6785/files/19903745198.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9089/4247/files/moscow_idaho_weather.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8845/4559/files/nokekurufapixosusunudogex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2110/5309/files/2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8679/9257/files/3106548311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2798/8634/files/oxidative_stress_biomarkers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0985/8969/files/ovarian_cyst_guidelines_ultrasound.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6588/5351/files/46070909985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5834/8703/files/44797923776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4931/1646/files/bufubobajezedaj.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_off000047b8.bin
36d07b8563d7f3ada259b449c274ce16d8cbd5bbcbb4a484be0986a5a4f59f31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47B8 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059ae.bin
8b890551a52b2ad1dc5833c57321a38434e7ad23918f7d77d808b5dc69ecc326
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59AE 9692 bytes