Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d29d9a6eead25b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 00:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da5b9f7d618dedf6e893c9ffeda4c128 SHA-1: 3862d75c19f80f605a15522cdc1c7b2a5671de02 SHA-256: 3d29d9a6eead25b6a31de11538d41efa2ac312cba760ffba9150e0aa19c6ba1a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying it as a redirector link to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, it contains a link farm with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=alchemy+books+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a phishing or malware-hosting site. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution behaviors.

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=alchemy+books+pdf
    • http://files.accubiomedzh.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740234/jafew.pdf
    • http://files.cherylwhiteartistry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406430/gijoduwunagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1001/2837/files/7135918973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7937/6798/files/blouse_cutting_stitching_in_tamil_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5138/files/zewixufale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3982/files/14562080131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2732/3301/files/adobe_photoshop_tutorial_in_bangla.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/fadifevi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3692/5342/files/81436536082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8100/7255/files/blender_2._72.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7673/8462/files/linux_command_line_cheat_sheet_text.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_off0000ac4b.bin
a5194b7e675f8d0c0d22c5ce7f0cf1fd9481d6cdfc11e9200b284edb617e6c4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC4B 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000be7b.bin
7157caf395f5504b44311d4f536400896785fe881999ed859d6090bf68e3e020
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7B 10364 bytes