Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 169d02d8e6f48887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 11:03:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ecec655b465fe4313eec512fc6ad6ee2 SHA-1: 8358fa2c4108984641407251872d7eff1fef0f70 SHA-256: 169d02d8e6f48887b87bc865003100c8f2b0eb118b42b828b64c186df4345f3d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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=alter+ego+frances+a2+pdf
    • http://kawepata.dba-group.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/05e022af2.pdf
    • http://files.glassicsart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383318/400016.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4575/6821/files/moletuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/jocuri_cu_m_asini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3867/1010/files/rerupevazufijadikupiliduf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8060/5077/files/amrita_pritam_books_in_urdu_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7113/4106/files/93636917758.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5350/5946/files/65745026688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5666/8573/files/67748213466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7245/2776/files/58819449856.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8636/2264/files/aramco_operational_calendar_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0806/0574/files/bionote_tagalog_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83971047952.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_off00005cc9.bin
f7934d7def5cdf552526d7e11dcdc34012a5d2e1426a09cefd74529168580729
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CC9 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f5c.bin
4a94f97c4b548a94aff1108b6f0ee65454b809e5205ee618af04b854d392eb3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F5C 10120 bytes