Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1236209d00ff4baf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f659e7bb6ef9dca698496256431b9fad SHA-1: 7fd588820ce36b63f964b89efa706fe1af06df13 SHA-256: 1236209d00ff4baf1b015e8c8f85f0a10c92233c6967928097417943018f246a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure (ttraff.ru), which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=general+mental+ability+and+reasoning+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://files.metcalfe4pa.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408280/704d38.pdf
    • http://files.piasiagallery.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856358/pelevixibujova_ximewusodo_jumuwakofidewu.pdf
    • http://files.bctents.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380666/fogogifiwekimeviwex.pdf
    • http://files.endhomelessnessla.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969377/1246535.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1307/8168/files/2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1266/9089/files/leresenuro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9166/files/golden_companion_scooter_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9280/1704/files/bufadoselis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86593634255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0477/3031/files/hotel_dash_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1310/2998/files/nilenaniperokujave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/49090326843.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3141/3414/files/fozunekawiwidemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4079/2999/files/cobra_microtalk_manual.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_off0000634d.bin
2cd8bd1012dc8789a7f76bda3430a275421060a47d2ab3b603f3273c88c290d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x634D 5852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000772c.bin
d87fe5a3ead106ae2be4e9d8d3c1e14dc9cfff686e14ec1b365e8d7780032796
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x772C 13268 bytes