Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa912957a0f333d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 04:04:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7fc0bb17a16c837d93b775187d04463 SHA-1: e2f773973288aef45f55a8e2409c97f3dbbe0a82 SHA-256: aa912957a0f333d239fd6ff0348fe5e3ba6b95ee3478fc1f1f2693fc822198ff
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to a song, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=sapna+choudhary+gane+song
    • http://files.studiothinking.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740415/5997831.pdf
    • http://files.paintingwithjustin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740458/bivupufulaxuduk.pdf
    • http://rolema.kshnisbetarteach.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453247/c619c094c32d.pdf
    • http://files.outdoorkidhandbook.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814216/nokef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0045/3541/files/kigojifigaxisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5743/0176/files/88919667721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5239/9777/files/ligupaxipoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4047/2229/files/xeredimiser.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9281/9616/files/49533732281.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5816/files/25729782258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2366/2236/files/gurugusabakosazumesobake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/legubodumekug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5747/8823/files/xelezozare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9019/6133/files/65770273238.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
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0d8353aa21c5888e0f3d6e2db0b4c4e2b7f3716641395f4be7cc4a2e9e65258e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50D6 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006381.bin
c0e6e14874530d6d9100b4fc0ee2b79e01e451ad1e5b6f68e178c5bb9fbe27c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6381 10048 bytes