Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bd869d6cdf00e48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-09-01 21:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca5afa8924b2a38456f2952c42a13f40 SHA-1: fcaebd58193662cf3921e07d9797d3f8ff155037 SHA-256: 2bd869d6cdf00e4849866420a27600f35d3883474bab29810adbad57cccb45a6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=amended+1120s+form'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. 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/wix?keyword=amended+1120s+form
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8dde66_db8c508ef5cc46d8b9c60dfa48d63e57.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86fce33d88d24af9b0187d99524497b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b47706_0b11590f233344748714d5c9f5094f21.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f967ac_48208ae0077f4941b4333035d0617cbd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5897/0280/files/95666805356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7989/1099/files/en_maima_peru_thanda_anjala_video_so.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5555/2414/files/taxonomic_categories.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2687/3509/files/pdf_rewriter_free_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/essential_english_grammar_in_use_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/92864203037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8086/8255/files/english_pronouncing_dictionary_cambridge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3929/2577/files/connecticut_dmv_bill_of_sale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xawifakupubegezixezo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4083/2678/files/51081377187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4170/8437/files/sasiserefopulobumigoziw.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_off000061e4.bin
8b61e660224a6e12968ae2c0aee25283f36742ec88ccd2b5f0e74962a57443f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61E4 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007349.bin
fcea9d1537753903619b6051034f48b761b523433092def725d913a47ce5d57e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7349 10420 bytes