Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c45748b9323e5585…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 15:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3789c28acdff471a616b6cb16db164ed SHA-1: 437aa5998cf7857df6522688e157e8daad6696d0 SHA-256: c45748b9323e558594e56cb82c1b71a9baebf0aa57a9367a70b98846ce8e6599
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure related to 'agents of socialization in sociology pdf'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com and cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm or distribution network. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=agents+of+socialization+in+sociology+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc7e8_8549f626d10547a3a2757937c9b71f50.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5d855_eb0b246b9cd84cf09ff4361d774ae962.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_c1e830ee7c7040fa8772b43b17ebaacd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6745/7188/files/94345328640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7812/2649/files/32470846413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4977/files/16342638596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0402/files/33783135198.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2727/4645/files/malayalam_child_songs_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/003b86_5302b1c2e2bf41e1b7fb458c716aada1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1595f2c1b95344dcb9c15fd638845ab6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c83fdb_633bcbcefe7d46b8a88b89764107ceef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a64c8c_c893cc25b15f475d8add8637192e4782.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d78803_4d2d260c76c04e7c85ea1f206c2c15ce.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_off000062f9.bin
9f18e06ae4f6c17b662e040adc3f06deb889a51ecb45277412412594312e0fbe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62F9 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007574.bin
fc045b3db633a230e82f0e7e822a646a39ae1ec478c4d5ecb76b0cd10e6a6e92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7574 10304 bytes