Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c600bee41ffc177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 18:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 17c2c554cdc2c97e32f6f0eb5cd6441a SHA-1: 2b4ba0594fbe03e063320a6f296c676c1f912460 SHA-256: 2c600bee41ffc1776df44ae64c7315cc3e9aec17df7a159891ba57520a1b62f1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are SEO-optimized and point to benign Shopify domains. However, one critical link directs to 'ttraff.ru', which is identified as a known malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or malicious content delivery scheme leveraging a link farm to obscure the final malicious destination. 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=mecanismo+de+accion+de+los+aines+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1787/5110/files/solving_behavior_problems_in_autism.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8903/4402/files/bulan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7532/9443/files/18048040972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1524/1891/files/perfect_continuous_tense_exercises.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5cf39_dccb1b04c3a34070996a19c159c15a4b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/930050_6baddd03a27d43c9bff7c18d22a80edc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5585/6281/files/bcbs_illinois_prior_authorization_form_for_medication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1187/3695/files/wetapijofovigamejomubotav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0426/3585/files/quantitative_aptitude_questions_with_answers_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0017/6544/files/dbatu_model_answer_paper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3175/5932/files/sefaj.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_off00010342.bin
327a7c0780b8bbb30d9b4c4f9e6edc8d17e6f3b242a1e0557feda5325e308ad8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10342 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000114fd.bin
ae61e4677a289131697c09513204ea2931c4d75c35635edf3521f4a3614c728c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FD 17060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000148a3.bin
b3f9d30c4d3b5c3909c6758c02d71c259300efb4ead8637ea80d443062452dbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148A3 16328 bytes