Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83d1b1b78aeb2aa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:07:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 87b4918e2e6f0fb29406f82f4294a5ce SHA-1: d68584c64682733d563271ead83ff5edf1efc003 SHA-256: 83d1b1b78aeb2aa721de85c527a44b43a4cad303c69f15de64da0956abd7c109
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic indicates a redirector link to 'ttraff.ru', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the intent to redirect users to a harmful site. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the redirector heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

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=ansiedad+3+augusto+cury+pdf+gratis
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6719/4021/files/intel_matrix_storage_manager.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6955/2293/files/zaroki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1385/7692/files/48820555440.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3749/files/ralagavuxigadubuwixunaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1604/5222/files/pujapukapitav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8225/8334/files/61370758909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0721/2709/files/45588547911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6926/7354/files/kixaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/1836/7654/files/epigenetic_modification.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33c377_e44be7d164174dd3b115d3046de64877.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65175_7ff5a6dd6ab4474bb6dad92e43c08781.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07625c_8c7e260265864686b6a471ffb709ddb7.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_off00004bda.bin
2a47b0d94938d7cd0f6c604a77af89b7b7e780221705b13b1fe733aa1d56af3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BDA 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ecb.bin
b42cf7a02314f3b9022528199e6c00d536ce6e218e5518f6e73d7e2b9a1af550
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ECB 13744 bytes