Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef3ee73b990f3f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:53:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3598d8ce16f7755e7a0ccff3bc5ad65b SHA-1: 15a3a5b77cff916a2199ca5632b0d2e735a945b5 SHA-256: ef3ee73b990f3f90b5d8b7445ac3732d2e618ccde010438b0c6550f58168e26f
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 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=respostas+do+capitulo+9+de+cisco+ccn'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's intended to lure users into clicking it. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=respostas+do+capitulo+9+de+cisco+ccn
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/81d6a4_6f54a2e2cb314833ba07134d2f764df8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3548c_ee235e315f014915b55ee3898eab4569.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_928a2ba8369346fd920dfca5713725c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_993970a48f704fc4939cf0e755477601.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ec0c41_b5a751631240455fb0da0ed0366d0762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0703/9897/files/apartment_owners_association_rules_and_regulations.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4553/6419/files/susikovijinaginivuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3019/2039/files/adobe_after_effects_cs6_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9592/4640/files/stable_isotopes_in_ecology_and_environmental_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2209/6283/files/39648818353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/5487/4006/files/how_to_do_a_hard_reset_on_ipod_nano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7357/6865/files/36291097660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/67799186377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2379/4077/files/monaloluzivafejim.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_off000081dd.bin
e8c6a6d68b987267dd0219b05444b998d274867a6fb9582062fc44258aa6974e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81DD 5132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009368.bin
606919ce4cd7240fc9d268f083622331359c97bbec8604335e960e4d192dc457
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9368 12392 bytes