Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c0158b3a9b9fe84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:18:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1606a9d6409c8b989103ba91f012d5ea SHA-1: d8df4d7584fa21ca8e7284506ba11c2861f6ea29 SHA-256: 2c0158b3a9b9fe8465dae2d57b54c3dfd363ae367e5751a94791ef2e6576c0b5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link redirects to `ttraff.ru`, identified as known malicious infrastructure. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=bioshock+ps4+dlc+trophy+guide
    • http://mumasek.decadesboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411688/8711bc355592c24.pdf
    • http://files.lavalstgermain.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775866/5976637.pdf
    • http://fizigifek.holyokemapartyrentals.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682137/nimejatofigomir.pdf
    • http://zagub.bartendingbydennisinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379510/7754235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6695/files/10116278170.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7320/7446/files/matrix_inverse_2x2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2603/7411/files/education_bd_result_marksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7300/2902/files/entropia_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/3274/7672/files/81006714096.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1745/3211/files/31136867498.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3692/5342/files/hiperplasia_benigna_de_prostata_sintomas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0225/5770/files/geligikiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6953/9239/files/69554112536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0381/3781/files/novinazif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0659/0104/files/albacea_definicion.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006803.bin
8bf8b597904112b0dfa2c21697431a490c531932d938cc8c8e9d222c706f8d91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6803 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079de.bin
00666c26049af0bf8b7d6cf95203bc41f2d9800d06a889e4fccf492c7af24dcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79DE 9860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009bb6.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BB6 4324 bytes