Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72df95a812abdcd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 17:07:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b2569d2f9166a915e4eabf64b3f4b07f SHA-1: cfe4bc17e9a0b6c61a73bc1513435f2bd45c37a1 SHA-256: 72df95a812abdcd502696da90a47012419484021e957757cc179aa8a85d9d92f
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` is identified as malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a benign-looking URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=big+tasty+with+bacon+nutrition+information
    • http://files.heritagephilharmonic.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710491/zibulajukopipu_tatajopivedije_fazelejorufojim.pdf
    • http://pubifiv.lenisewilliams.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695839/3511252.pdf
    • http://files.brentstrang.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969452/jakeredamigikuvaxobi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3448/3616/files/elementary_homeschool_report_card_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6211/6008/files/mimikojivogubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4798/4027/files/o_mio_babbino_caro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9064/8994/files/68344894994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5679/0695/files/93650241900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3581/9173/files/kajuvomizisebesokozus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2785/6536/files/counter_strike_1._6_server_steam.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006080.bin
3a93ce751ba47461185a739f1dd2e5480427384fbd1440a7f83bd33634922aa4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6080 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000738e.bin
daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x738E 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007c1c.bin
776d6a15996cd3226183322acdb8225b4ab1b7f0370135baeac2031eb118fd86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C1C 10916 bytes