Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b1614dd5dde4cb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:22:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bdda2659a9b35c189d6f1b00e21f661b SHA-1: e607324ebedc75471e891d8d19ae632580c09c3e SHA-256: 1b1614dd5dde4cb26c0c282bae1e5eb5eba43117d6ded4b0885f9edf5d13ca72
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The embedded URL points to 'ttraff.ru', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=eos+m2+magic+lantern
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7175/6698/files/john_deere_4410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9750/files/tikuludonilavis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3859/5482/files/buttinette_katalog_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/denikiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8176/8864/files/boxikikapurimimakomivakuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6616/2341/files/trane_touchscreen_thermostat_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7359/1703/files/jetatoxixoxejutoku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2092/7655/files/cute_baby_pic_wallpaper_hd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2168/1315/files/zestawienie_czasw_angielskich_w_tabeli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1897/7443/files/numro_de_la_carte_green_dot_moneypa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0506/6907/files/d_d_5e_fighter_level_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5195/files/47844299232.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2782/2752/files/atkins_physical_chemistry_solution_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/adobe_audition_trial.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000051ae.bin
a4abb9f34f18258137b11c623116fa5261bbdccce7f56f1c952f257b6feb6a93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51AE 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006349.bin
80baeb7e282fa10253ec096c0677ab51620012cd57bd181054f059027aafcaa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6349 10260 bytes