Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80c040b2084aa62a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-26 06:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c6d1f321cd7fb76cfc7c82f1034748e9 SHA-1: f479b8d2fea329726cd738331be382e0475ed375 SHA-256: 80c040b2084aa62a75ff697fdc4c95ac5653eff611f2d63c7134696447d030ee
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. Another heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to shopify.com domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=the+calculus+7+leithold+national+boo', reinforcing the malicious redirector finding. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=the+calculus+7+leithold+national+boo
    • http://files.alaskadalmatians.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970003/8975480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/9884/0744/files/56496637949.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9628/6111/files/jebilepaxub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9581/8404/files/42651288670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4448/6811/files/69434191399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5720/8731/files/563636270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/83145966739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3340/2266/files/21585595809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3697/8850/files/healing_back_pain.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9565/4554/files/dutejokuwiditazajefine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/arihant_analytical_logical_reasoning_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4337/2699/files/zubuwolesozupu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004be4.bin
e49b7de6156bdbba4e03be15e22d5a50539ace8fefbd175a346ce8ef36b854ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BE4 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d2a.bin
f2fd644e4456c386070f09a2777277c31662a4a00a06e6a83a863dc8a0122cd5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D2A 1796 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000065fa.bin
1e0fe19eafb2024f45869ba256899a972f507b8ff2fd79f1de9975c8bdff9cc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65FA 9752 bytes