Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac5a1420caaac2e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 22:02:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: df8b3577499ed485fe1d42b5a034a323 SHA-1: d9d3090ad5252612ebc69303c9c7cf55b49091e3 SHA-256: ac5a1420caaac2e32251651fd85eeaf0c73af39884056a6cc5dd5540a60df007
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=loan+calculator+apps+free', is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, likely to obscure the malicious destination. 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=loan+calculator+apps+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4736/1439/files/arabic_worksheets_for_grade_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9901/2766/files/circle_of_life_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2795/4853/files/attestation_d_accueil_cerfa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/764aaa_531eca46db984f7d91f482550268d118.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7383c48d06cb41799bd6d22c2e475cff.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8691/3439/files/variance_of_uniform_distribution_derivation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1321/8199/files/xufapabobo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3548c_0d217400a70448688dbc501970f11356.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c24447d30b8c47828084a64ed750a70b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_b83e7c2645d74687be009f3025fff9fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599f1c_1c486a7c4cf64d78b940d13116057cd6.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_off00005e44.bin
4369864b5ca0f8e008626fe6cd251da604104cb6a5ae00ca67a777c53ff86328
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E44 4948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f2b.bin
ee26da01afed3c24a1dbcad63db5ce6160ea479a27b5e67e9fc4a138a4f7264c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F2B 10192 bytes