Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 041849173dedafc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-16 11:59:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15fc5e5496f3cb39ffe2805dcf09e98f SHA-1: 3814d91f0c2fa6113e0e50a7dad5d48d2630406c SHA-256: 041849173dedafc468eec70949e39fa27267a3a21a4ebb6c0a92a93f4aaa1702
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting seemingly benign PDF files. However, one prominent link redirects to `ttraff.ru`, identified as malicious redirector infrastructure. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims through seemingly legitimate content, ultimately leading to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=chapter+2+review+worksheet+physical+science
    • http://files.bethgagliardi.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636758/lumusazi.pdf
    • http://files.keepanopenmind.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814642/354913.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2421/9293/files/comunicacion_intercultural_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9544/7970/files/vimipogedazakinovasoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/xexokaxekewosepalexarit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4940/9960/files/sasipipofiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8385/8080/files/5249988531.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2125/files/bartolomeu_anania_cartea_deschisa_a_imparatiei.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7054/6335/files/lejemekuwit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2484/9815/files/coriolis_flow_meter_calibration_procedure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7614/8638/files/neopets_the_darkest_faerie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/89034026116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6797/3538/files/convert_corel_to_online.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000738c.bin
3d5d347aeee5ca297ea314bb4b3ae7f39c4280aa74908e8ffa7bc2cafdd0d393
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x738C 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085ec.bin
154df9222ce5a3ba8ec696f2761bc838526ac2aa714c0bc336faa703275b09b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85EC 11644 bytes