Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3916ff280362cece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 17:50:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9a1b504314a9930caacee1ad6de629a SHA-1: 2786a8c409025696e71d207c802bbdaf1b91cca1 SHA-256: 3916ff280362ceced44c640dc1e68b1c06c0f760d1139541c13a6b1067b67603
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 a redirector service (ttraff.ru) known to host malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the redirector URL and numerous other links hosted on Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. 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=two+column+cash+book+format
    • http://files.adrianeejones.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606467/2aa9a52af683.pdf
    • http://files.evergreentrackingdogclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407278/tavewido.pdf
    • http://files.mikewilldridge-artist.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606630/5842268.pdf
    • http://zakavak.ricelandcrawfish.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/5540859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0944/0933/files/piping_isometric_drawing_practice.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7283/0105/files/guideposts_mysterious_ways.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3624/4118/files/1282415037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4754/2175/files/19577262495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0842/6147/files/basic_english_usage_michael_swan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2723/4969/files/tibalebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8484/1124/files/liwebuvifitet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5715/1129/files/polar_ft1_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3265/8588/files/kendo_grid_checkbox_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4679/5424/files/86835532365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2518/7491/files/51128412263.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_off00005a27.bin
e4e92a9dc879e3dd49d1facacbf3429d42d7141397d4164edbb8f5ff27d4e54c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A27 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c49.bin
97cd858ae84ac41c8bd18adad128a71cf3f92e6f2ea3181de4424477b17590ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C49 13056 bytes