Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e80a560c132fa71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:38:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c3db78f4e8db64fda7edc4993d11986 SHA-1: 4f13d73cd04b3e1db69aba4a9f34e71c36158ea7 SHA-256: 1e80a560c132fa7162bddccaa6e03ffdf5e07bfd2ca163cd19a38059f650129c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link to 'ttraff.ru' is flagged as malicious. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=how+to+copy+on+mac', indicating a lure to a potentially harmful site. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=how+to+copy+on+mac
    • http://xadefivo.miltonrtrice.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695278/cda60c3a0ca.pdf
    • http://wovir.sybaritic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406592/4badcb59f9adf0.pdf
    • http://files.passionforparity.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856757/8278055.pdf
    • http://files.savannahgreendirtdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710676/revojotaxakajapeve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9186/8310/files/petinifujatofemojij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8068/7524/files/pudegufetikenadogelovugif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3491/8568/files/74823127627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4572/5094/files/85207652697.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1338/1028/files/rekekugogud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1578/2045/files/jokudedisikiwukita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jidaxuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5244/9444/files/liwunojifireluwolixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6309/9040/files/butilupaxolipikobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4719/7594/files/gifajegefiban.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/lupowimojofevidakolagad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6662/1094/files/63554541026.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_off00006de0.bin
530a0415f3c6638ed3c4814b86a3e8ebf69110eaf4205da2c40b7f98df80a459
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE0 4928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007eaf.bin
9aeb1c26b53c7e84e90706ec8ce60d517a8326943a6634ff61353b265e7282c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EAF 10392 bytes