Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c991f6a266f64db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 14:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bc8b51f196e8a0ab9dbee187e6762041 SHA-1: af80cac9fcffd6a1d85a80d3d167ba674e6d4633 SHA-256: 2c991f6a266f64dbaed891406451dc40392a2bfc41e983ff1c340f45a4f1b5c7
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with a large number of embedded external links. One of these links directs to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final destination and potentially deliver malware or phishing content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine a more specific attack pattern beyond link redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=build-+essential+ubuntu+package
    • http://files.ellwoodcityelementarypto.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775205/bf02e56d6a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7746/7288/files/tilexafadoxiwafilurujojib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9957/8773/files/ravebolisufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7786/8443/files/woxax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/41115808536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8792/9245/files/99272829151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5041/files/bemonc_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/52856613639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0655/8359/files/70614685349.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8280/0542/files/74035417226.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0918/5688/files/82278837964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6641/6534/files/ripudutitabukuj.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7786/8443/fi

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006fd1.bin
a169c91fd8cd93e8b33e056af1a64b9c3e89b6d1fabf119f24ea8fb1884b4fc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FD1 3576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cb5.bin
cbf2b7df7e2effac0b72a2d4b1487106811c21bcd9924abcf0d7fc800c0e5c4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB5 5204 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e6e.bin
384e69ccd52c28414d2fea63a946f105e79584fbe2dcda8ab8bbf9f01cec997b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E6E 11376 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b529.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB529 4324 bytes