Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b4af28430a83df2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:34:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e6a8ddb6b216d4b4ef0f45fc594c61f1 SHA-1: c211a1faafc96fab5de415b8f79c9e36c79045f2 SHA-256: 9b4af28430a83df2e08bf8f1b2944208d1506d58eda88d087c38ce641ad69909
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, disguised as a textbook download, redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.ru). This indicates a social engineering attack designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=introduction+to+aerospace+engineering+textbook+pdf
    • http://files.clintonems.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695575/3883073.pdf
    • http://files.laetitiamartinez.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437604/durililojutekag-nenekakukirane.pdf
    • http://gomoxi.fikarisart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379803/7336124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8732/2522/files/zixagigij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9543/2099/files/autocad_drawing_to_converter_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7121/8588/files/wowupunuludupimufan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1313/4757/files/how_to_change_discord_tag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4107/files/logatilujajelawam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6693/files/dubipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5834/0774/files/84355706213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8901/1612/files/87858260215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/administracion_publica_en_espaa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0757/3157/files/39882437356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8951/1068/files/java_array_copy.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_off00006cb9.bin
0e4cdf2c65b65130367ccdb92f54aaf82a5c88d6a874492910bc4a02e8ab4b06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB9 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f7e.bin
61cf60d067f0d56525a541e18fffeae2a1abd72222e00c2a7e4150fc02865b5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F7E 10080 bytes