Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f0df718b1598219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 09:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1300d88a6c1068ec9bc5964b2d435116 SHA-1: 7cea45fa0627f227ae0978fab6a29dce6fd947b3 SHA-256: 2f0df718b15982190a54d723730ea93588f2ffa115ef8fdec5eb403b47ae1e40
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 pointing to Shopify domains, which are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is flagged as a redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to legal forms, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=affidavit+of+heirship+texas+form+free
    • http://files.nzosi.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969937/a9da67f30041d.pdf
    • http://roziwufi.efciem.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/9905366.pdf
    • http://files.scsoaventura.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606165/bafuweg-digizetedote-julevur.pdf
    • http://genulu.discovercalvary.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437724/3828437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0580/4698/files/wipivux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/11987648716.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9040/3737/files/65771366142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/dijazowatuvepagabupujudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6650/7942/files/optical_illusion_images_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1947/4856/files/63097793541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8935/4149/files/capoeira_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3336/files/gigite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1766/5701/files/mawipebefike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1537/0912/files/54065939437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4765/6351/files/ndlea_referee_form.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_off00004de9.bin
069ac5172420f420518447c3b3504efc891639074c06cbffc9903ef8bc9b641e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DE9 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006010.bin
7c37ff4d380ab76f0c4b58f437054828341676fa1aaba45aa7ac5b91d7e91e75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6010 10012 bytes