Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deb49f181a8cb121…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:16:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7364f2c1cd4c6f6fd8454c2505b75e3 SHA-1: d4348528eecc46cf16b72df0a5d5939799453500 SHA-256: deb49f181a8cb121ce07325b5bebbec68332648fa07dd4805f4fed9fd777a2e9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is used in a lure related to 'filezilla android apk', suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick users into downloading potentially malicious software. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=filezilla+android+apk
    • http://files.korukoruatae.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740633/1016564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9952/1181/files/hashset_time_complexity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6563/0102/files/32137121069.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5380/0859/files/best_online_converter_to_jpg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2072/2080/files/16978795140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5481/6665/files/37536576451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1618/3205/files/xabawizikadalilufewutovup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6199/1841/files/pdf_adobe_acrobat_reader_9_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4100/5480/files/rarusorenunamalaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8873/0525/files/slope_intercept_form_calculator.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005294.bin
b57d4784d8f48e2a2e15c67d27961abefeb47728f79aa3062d5d601a09c2fc85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5294 4552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006208.bin
c3f7cd3a87b02db7c26d819782def25598e694d824daa4dc922de5a1e17af028
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6208 9772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008384.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8384 4324 bytes