Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92c651ef42f8c836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:03:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 136b66a9cc84b7d73e4bbe21d9c5e526 SHA-1: 2b548378903891ac9839452b6f0ff94a8c968fa1 SHA-256: 92c651ef42f8c836479eaf09593cd7ec731f7f078f63c20a3e279e358c372708
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the malicious redirector URL, reinforcing the attack pattern.

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=number+of+faces+edges+and+vertices+worksheet
    • http://files.johnmfraser.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740378/8704240.pdf
    • http://files.trickdogu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739836/795959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1460/9305/files/android_auto_app_store.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/jexurekijikigi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2033/2705/files/2016_hyundai_tucson_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8510/3258/files/wafusumodinipipep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6201/files/lolojimomonobozot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8740/4968/files/wuvupawefafikijozubiwovin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4494/files/mezirurotarazaserepux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7079/7462/files/26496478310.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_off000045ba.bin
082bfa5c9a21d0dfc7828be9582586b306e8354146b7b03b88250a899cf7e6aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45BA 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058b0.bin
22c1063b0744dc597264eac06ddf4d69f836c511b4ef5f8a2e5a077360bf8609
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58B0 10000 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007ae1.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE1 4324 bytes