Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dad31ad82bc59a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 13:44:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4655f86e946f12160b0ee1a6c8fecfd7 SHA-1: 9e1ecce0ecf1cafd6b802b9034458c3132f07319 SHA-256: 0dad31ad82bc59a83bb21d75e42dc7d9e48aaf3a8885b65d07baef34a556ba35
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical redirector link pointing to ttraff.ru, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a large number of Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a tactic to obscure the true malicious destination and potentially engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=currency+swap+agreement+template
    • http://sikuzori.drbrettwade.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606122/fuxovajita_jozosapinakubi_lalewutimejiv_taxoxogubofeda.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4301/files/49100406922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1152/2209/files/toberugopaxabaxiripeguz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1227/5870/files/ducky_12_mini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/44068306792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9294/9658/files/luwawaxodarikar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8889/files/zizepovoli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8298/7173/files/wedding_declaration_of_intent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9456/1188/files/kavoziwidameravamimegizor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0277/3156/files/pegozutimizivareve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7546/9473/files/kelisekoteliwadabisix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7229/8913/files/10022345918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4565/0586/files/bootstrap_4_complete_tutorial.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_off00005e2a.bin
53b9d6316c0f1e613bd411d14c0dc23c0fada7400114c799ef19346b7555bf44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E2A 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007064.bin
073094efa2a40076ca64802a3151ea56463b3c64faab04a1723ce4783a76e791
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7064 14252 bytes