Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6708e9b0194117df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 06:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d1ae430641e25d6c79d08d815e2cf1bf SHA-1: a65c4122007f54070351f24ffb48f42a4a859c3c SHA-256: 6708e9b0194117dfb697abfbe32a0d86d809b4aa3075b926a9ae15ef4b137e8d
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 identifying it as a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards a phishing or redirection attack.

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=bardo+th%25C3%25B6dol+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+pdf
    • http://files.evergreentreerestoration.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738928/6507046.pdf
    • http://files.calvinnyecomics.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384470/bizodukezupagewu.pdf
    • http://files.ya4ya.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710779/fc375d0e5.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/mujowimizureratosusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/97381940347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3802/3586/files/mesudugafosinimaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9101/8396/files/69662499591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7695/1965/files/22026722399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5583/1445/files/27801596632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2513/6792/files/pmgdisha_certificate_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2171/9959/files/15726786676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/9042253345.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9959/4656/files/55863602790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0840/1316/files/fekizunufosamevoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0212/6751/files/3600840968.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_off0000a2df.bin
99cbd5f76d281110bdc2e427de88672af88bf8fe92209933047cee30d80b3fab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2DF 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b513.bin
683399e262fb0d92930b41ae390c1147e68da0c58d6559a1d9ccb4c9bcb9d6cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB513 11848 bytes