Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a6fbe60355a8ead…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 09:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5f09b78c5802821f570d30d6b54f2ee2 SHA-1: 49cb5c312bed4083f54906251795fb4d10bbc1dc SHA-256: 5a6fbe60355a8eade27a3e1195cc7e3f1285c89ec9a650cadf1ab3a46df76105
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is used in conjunction with a keyword related to the document's apparent topic. The document also contains a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the malicious redirector strongly indicate a phishing or traffic-generation scheme.

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=electrolysis+of+copper+sulphate+using+copper+electrodes+pdf
    • http://files.shinestudiohairsalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856380/f3e9d249461e.pdf
    • http://files.soleistictouch.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410009/geganexosi.pdf
    • http://files.ajconsultingcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407080/a272a5d0.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5274/4347/files/vebafon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1076/8546/files/zutesinekazuwoxowixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1389/6352/files/90409560489.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9819/3573/files/xunajixobakelutuganudax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5791/3749/files/24509964527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/20589963521.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8524/1256/files/kewogoguruzebumeboxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3229/0215/files/69864616407.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5997/9174/files/losubikofimaza.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007139.bin
a80f7ae64361b87f37566ad703ad0d0ee1c5799e6ac7c934c2111734ff279f7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7139 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000836e.bin
913433f0d1c8977b98710e08f3d4e7054232e28a32bd673180e06aa8226f7582
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x836E 10480 bytes