Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48afc3ace260172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20f549a0ec2ad8a1c423e034779a0a37 SHA-1: 3fc7db346c4b0f5099db67d3508e393e09d06877 SHA-256: e48afc3ace2601728a87a98ea3d8904c9494b28a003843519056bf4e9b46d47d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text suggesting a lure to 'download pdf file for android' and references wkhtmltopdf, indicating a potential attempt to disguise malicious content. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or redirection strategy. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.ru redirector URL.

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=baixar+arquivo+pdf+para+android
    • http://files.bingsdsm.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710683/javegaxawetedix_gipamadir.pdf
    • http://files.shopdogtown360.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681698/lutitunolepixu_zuzofi.pdf
    • http://files.gclx.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739654/4457687.pdf
    • http://files.heatherseagraves.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302774/nufigidoruz-reverime-mojavo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4639/6326/files/accidente_cerebrovascular_cerebeloso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/depanufopaxidimelogojojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/99555255133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4093/1991/files/jugifupozigumoluzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5663/6828/files/61319422617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/torivigamobunoli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8682/2053/files/duderogewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/81145545315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5080/3099/files/muxaguwam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5289/1298/files/gasudepipuxa.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
stream_006_off0000a27f.bin
a10dc2187cfbf7805e92f7db8b3920e5ed491820acebd253f8899eb6e493f349
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA27F 20160 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00006d51.bin
19f413536ecc4bad0b0949e9b8e7bb9ab4552cb0aed1d97aa87c27d5819c16b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D51 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ee0.bin
ceb285fdb18e8be37eb72a909601465348989555d3367c6b4a2d3ad13f28548c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EE0 10328 bytes