Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d630e5b12cec7fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e16a6ff5ef4b6d3b6cb5d6355241c244 SHA-1: 7b5f0a6f737555fde4905ac8b4dc79f7527799d1 SHA-256: 5d630e5b12cec7fb81b37a9d4809935c661b652343610fc2780bca10c6040325
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs but one critical link to `ttraff.ru`, a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. 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=printable+flash+cards+multiplication
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3497/6157/files/voiced_and_unvoiced_consonants.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8311/1325/files/aged_pension_income_test_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4926/8886/files/72112255514.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4274/3207/files/31710991021.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b7290_58d0a341dacb44de97c3ef98401a6e4c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/804ff6_72f4563616fa4a4fb0490442c460d035.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cc572_7e8b217e26f24a5b9fe2577317dad35c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f51ac665798844559ba0fad75a12b8c1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5182941cd8684036b6e0e4b4ad047ed1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_92bea7a586fd4e00a08e629d2fab10a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a054bf630dbb487b9970bd36e6cc5104.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6e29c1580c904fb5afabe02370fb5898.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d089b_4ad115d8ab2f46598a89400660e7ae11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8c0e65_2d3f776b62e3411c968171b0f5c2de0a.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_off0000634f.bin
473f624390fb8dc7f2a8e02f75437ce1ff2698c97322d89a7c4ddd17edad2873
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x634F 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075e3.bin
3574eb46e546b3b288d9e0b55678f1637312c03968f381407c8cd48f99cef02d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75E3 10376 bytes