Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 236fa1eec69d9911…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 10:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5146a9674aae2f28d31427ce3b82e2b SHA-1: 36bb7e10cdbcb1ab2d343cac07e6edda6ee0cd0d SHA-256: 236fa1eec69d991186548d4699f55cde0f0faadf23bbd8853bc8582fa7068501
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.ru. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=const+in+c' is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=const+in+c
    • http://files.sprucestreetnyc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380440/f77012b719aff5.pdf
    • http://files.duhbuhlyoo.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871850/xeweludigokivor_risovimapake_rekuzigiluku_zigetovomi.pdf
    • http://files.columbiadentcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969910/jubegonakajij-desagomabof-sateno-pikilolot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2388/4711/files/42541078412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3547/6636/files/57910777774.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/82595467958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2814/3510/files/nipeduxijulofikimavimuwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0140/5852/files/watch_smallville_online_free_megavideo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7121/8588/files/wupamajemodobetujiwiwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1042/files/3547083377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6654/files/miwuwujawawopamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2215/4908/files/48460714665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6197/6994/files/67571223340.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6860/5095/files/18307799244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/didonazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0423/9770/files/tuket.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_off0000b9be.bin
fe580b7374994206c9d3e80a766fe15c7593033380864034711b608e11d53475
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9BE 4360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8a2.bin
8b7f145e415de41cd39cf032d022fc294922c4602418beb59f1e37ef9f55327c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8A2 10592 bytes