Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15a08ee888e17032…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-07-21 09:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: b0ea8474fe747fc967b36c0f27389e6f SHA-1: e02059cb87d8fbae98e07056246fbd6e27d446b7 SHA-256: 15a08ee888e1703273d443f424a304de497fa317bdf73c1881a58381c1d9d44c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru', which is likely used to obscure the final destination or distribute further malware. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=pdf%20file%20online%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.northmiresouces.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874058/vopilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bampilates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438741/1940dcd9a51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asws.info/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163684/vokemevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1410/2950/files/wepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2545/files/vetofidavuzexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4831/files/38050243681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5222/1091/files/dasadonodojomesizatuwugos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mupujinivibu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/93304956444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pimujapuza.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/kuwowekigasanuzoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuluvin.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/lisaduzojato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/kipake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8482/4222/files/xagodojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0067/6001/files/72682785285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1669/8526/files/85367899596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5714/3205/files/43599033931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0395/9720/files/3547838444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6975/1967/files/lafewiborewidevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5799/5160/files/xumademilepoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/wekuwaridulezitunakive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E8 4428 bytes
SHA-256: 0109b0ed0f5ebe3d99c8bff748fd400b93c67fedc9ef23c598aa3d0bc1dec1b1
font_01_sfnt_off00007004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7004 9740 bytes
SHA-256: 03f3828a928bcf3454859406ed89e23debf7a70f29a115e0e89d6dd315970681