Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e6d18a0797783b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:46:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 245b9965fad9c17cb8305d91dff56f8e SHA-1: 0de348e5fc0a9f9e25b1b272cdb5a8aabf6d3677 SHA-256: 46e6d18a0797783bd3ef1311567e4e99d6deb5b9441f9004156ec303c4b42981
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `ttraff.ru`. The document body, though partially corrupted, also contains this URL and appears to be a lure for a PDF download. The presence of a large number of external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, suggests a link farm SEO tactic 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=verbal+ability+for+cat+by+sujit+kumar+pdf+download
    • http://files.goldendebt.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969405/rijebej.pdf
    • http://files.ziontbc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695569/xutodizi.pdf
    • http://files.stemresources.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163833/zafunizalezo_rewubuza.pdf
    • http://files.cheryllynnplett.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740065/vosadonezur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6463/1189/files/zodegax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5503/7093/files/jj_benitez_caballo_de_troya_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/vigopafejawexobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9436/7649/files/89525709925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4136/6951/files/bosemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0425/4615/files/tirura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6428/5598/files/jegadigijebubepijarezufut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/22945880436.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5534/0954/files/bodifulidezowekosuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3175/5932/files/27730959665.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_off00004710.bin
c6cfcc5364e8f615ffd660d83def2acd41867bb2f8a7d5b4999e88a59297da0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4710 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a25.bin
9fa00304e06c33a104e1194ab1af39c2b43e3b5e70ea39e1dea58cabcdb5f9ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A25 10332 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007d46.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D46 4324 bytes