Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54cf8383ffb2e617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 06:54:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 36580d2689730f71945ce968a7819104 SHA-1: 817918b87e697217db3ccb473118a3691105411d SHA-256: 54cf8383ffb2e617809d2ff44e4668403661acbcf7ad60dd8d11733f6baaea46
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to mask malicious intent. 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/wix?keyword=jewish+meditation+a+practical+guide
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4540/2277/files/codigo_civil_comentado_2016_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/4956/5590/files/suxikasopapeviregasida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9302/5187/files/damodaran_applied_corporate_finance_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8186/6143/files/vemomujedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1223/5174/files/arte_de_la_real_audiencia_de_quito.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30e015_f39c118188d04467823f4ccc2b1c6418.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9189c0d0b57d498f90bb808ddc05231a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_18c05589e98249d5b60f135543a901ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_af46178635b24690bcc99f6758291b71.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9575/9779/files/pearson_baccalaureate_essentials_global_politics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3612/0990/files/the_picture_of_dorian_gray_oxford_bookworms.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_off000047e3.bin
45d213452ef991bb69dcb7c30dea9e9f260dc191e15b05062cdbd5cbf49f3c57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47E3 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ab3.bin
e0e49245812f77330765aeb68880f07a4e56ba0212e397af71ecdb0371bbc62b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AB3 9744 bytes