Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd3a840271ba2b9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 03:47:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 172d4beee18f46360420d8c3dcf92033 SHA-1: f833e77fa49182271cf561fe071d9cc2520ecb85 SHA-256: dd3a840271ba2b9aaf1c6be3b020346d9ceb1f74721fb1247e22f9b2ee3c9ce5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link to 'ttraff.ru' is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and appears to be a lure for educational content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure suggests a link-farming or redirection attack.

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=guided+math+first+grade
    • http://files.berrybrook.us/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855981/cce75.pdf
    • http://selob.bwwt.us/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/koxogij.pdf
    • http://files.fevershowroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606968/viwatuwuzazema_fabofikafo_duvorokukiditu_gixutivisoroni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2122/files/luwifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8734/0454/files/tevutinutijukigimixated.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3826/8830/files/novujisabaxojejebab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6671/9385/files/chihuahua_growth_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6881/7569/files/noxuzaduxisimup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8806/files/48668109292.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6979/2668/files/90087013229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5476/files/chaos_engineering.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/botanogulipaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3563/files/kirby_table_flip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7632/files/60414617239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0716/5095/files/tewido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1415/6451/files/career_interest_test.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_off0000724a.bin
bf571ab8038a4ce0d52c676d6fb8bd5bbbf88ac60810f51091d879761c08ca0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x724A 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000843b.bin
646770d0037313eedcc317854e0aa9f531367a58bfa1e7f0c0a2554e58788970
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x843B 10636 bytes