Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe584c708813fa88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-09-02 18:13:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e1e13004587123f2df977602b93347b4 SHA-1: 3631f9119c7a6ff9012090961969297e63f80010 SHA-256: fe584c708813fa8820a26dea74f7a65accabdba221ed663d6f710a610bb9e688
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to distribute malware or facilitate phishing. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a lure related to "Symbolab pro apk onhax", suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm SEO tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=symbolab+pro+apk+onhax
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9624/files/13829592897.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8991/0167/files/4187_fillable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6245/0586/files/853357979.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8651/9203/files/65013614236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71409998288.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9573/6988/files/anno_2205_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2823/files/ossiarch_bonereapers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2908/6887/files/9432538003.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a4c69_ceb4c10f392e40ebb7c083d2a2fbf25d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c65af926c56240ddb3ca1dde6b75fe90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2c3427f58f145edbda03a8c7c7d935a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2737/3981/files/lapomizosaxad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4916/4693/files/amman_devotional_hd_video_songs_free.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_off00005490.bin
44c5adaf6a227ff7de4041ef1bc245d96461dba8083d9e518bbe263732d0d353
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5490 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066a5.bin
09eae7629c4d6616de62bd5fc7715f529b3c93a5491648312088acbb3c8c50ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66A5 10744 bytes