Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e647d16a7bf8f00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 07:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e550ff34ecb5d8c381ebc210ca1470a3 SHA-1: ea690715d9ab1cf328eaf01d39c2db73cf0f4821 SHA-256: 1e647d16a7bf8f00fd4709e3c99bc355784d1de3c5e83b0af7152e28cb302b97
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector service, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the ultimate destination of the attack. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with many URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on Shopify domains, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or SEO spam.

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=cxl+roman+numerals
    • http://files.lifecoachkoreen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384211/wibofelib.pdf
    • http://files.bluemoonportraits.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813821/4518496.pdf
    • http://files.woolseyacademy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681517/kukabujaxa_kutasinuza_fikuza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3177/2835/files/31362264403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4896/8090/files/xutujokuvev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/42539854631.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7668/1882/files/62990144693.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7194/7430/files/mepinodojarapagim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9238/5700/files/4640349210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2986/3320/files/76196194770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5312/9640/files/73207085616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/65833000844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4750/0448/files/paxuzes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6916/8021/files/nclex_trick_2015.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_off0000619a.bin
2d402d2ad2355c7394309488d94a325c19b9637f689ad0f6a3fb5e13ce2d9ac0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x619A 4804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071ce.bin
b33e39bfc60a956068d85d0fd80d778b80a7b8e36b4d249e18bf679bcc1761cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71CE 13280 bytes