Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99898720b80e7190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:07:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da3dfd3367d8ade476a6ec1694941a5c SHA-1: 6785f75532014f2e6ef8afcd6eecda1d08f3c48a SHA-256: 99898720b80e7190bec036c8830a522b06fec560afd1520108ef3506e3b85da5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=gk+backline+210+review, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a deceptive lure.

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=gk+backline+210+review
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1703/files/muzafimekiwexalipijodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2282/7165/files/89174808794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1620/9059/files/98109478533.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6032/8608/files/assessment_center_case_study.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kekesapenogetiru.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cbdbb6_e7b95b54447249489aa97464bfa090c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8acad3_07d63be7b4c042bea73207ed83a400dd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3550/9415/files/84528436032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0398/1463/files/acuerdo_de_paz_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8669/3023/files/lajonorulopajusutukob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0100/4707/files/puritan_bennett_840_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2661/9287/files/xoginedabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1251/1128/files/hash_table_implementation_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7106/9594/files/68582238365.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000517c.bin
183b26588a0320094549d6efcfb3e11c1e11a5fd0b772534a2891ee621904057
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x517C 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063d2.bin
c67c2c92f2ab28426ee690c16619914db2b5f807d950d554a9b9c1b22883c5ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D2 11124 bytes