Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7babd88a961def5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dc847d0303f3473ebe3d00505f826733 SHA-1: 94d8fa889fd276775e9a0e1ce1fd7df9f24aca5a SHA-256: a7babd88a961def526e99d2a9d50bce932f3953ece4198ea78a2ee428c94193a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.ru`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text "Attestation de travail algerie pdf", suggesting a lure for users seeking official documents. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful 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=attestation+de+travail+algerie+pdf
    • http://files.maostails.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379991/2065661.pdf
    • http://files.ccalliance.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739837/gidof.pdf
    • http://files.tucsonmetaphysicsfair.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814340/femuxukigawas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6481/1927/files/89239287670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8381/7375/files/vupuxomomutupabejuzelabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0486/9277/files/28766486612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0298/5626/files/37062328475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0982/6213/files/92380381222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4484/files/40981457378.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7068/4317/files/14577004308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6653/0728/files/3959942744.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/66594681122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5265/5004/files/60_fahrenheit_to_celsius.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8533/8526/files/29767067422.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_off00004431.bin
26835ebbf0d1e0d3ee273b7a6775b2203573c05e3d7845a7c5680aed2496f6af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4431 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005629.bin
6f0fd08c5ea1ef1dad1a928272b91fd1fa4ac87196b7f8eea0550bc65b9d4b6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5629 9876 bytes