Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d1504643f490506…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:38:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34f302c58a5d1eeb716de1acd059b382 SHA-1: b1bd950149d7e5d2e67be7146ae859ff28e877bb SHA-256: 0d1504643f490506f4464b00197e9e460189a57a8f828190769cf6db2b6fd3a1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm. One prominent link, disguised as a search result, redirects to the malicious domain 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attack designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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=cassandra+datastax++for+windows
    • http://files.agbole.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857465/9918a2c.pdf
    • http://joxura.acdawv.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739072/zigudobiguwuvepi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/ledexumudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0453/4692/files/58409505088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3947/2288/files/contemporary_approaches_to_leadership.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gojifazuxosupimuron.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9213/1484/files/bollywood_sheet_music_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7321/6411/files/ximejogozuxaxaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9282/8579/files/59235581491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1605/1112/files/l_tranger_albert_camus_livre.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/84252840203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4419/9829/files/chavacano_language.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5498/0505/files/zuwexozagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/31071453718.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_off000066e9.bin
08d93954f94b7fa6081ee10a2ced3f55df9d2bd8195c1fbed62915f8321a2a46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66E9 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077d5.bin
eff81c5c3ba998d4d57cb4eaf820c2f4a3282bb5cf767a8dfad3642a2c18a0c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77D5 10384 bytes