Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b21b8e27539bafbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 01:23:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0159e2d9953898e13d2f3c0d645fece3 SHA-1: 7e5d79f7f317fd99d00a94b179019a68a5507a79 SHA-256: b21b8e27539bafbef10ab5fdc8c9e476846a79ac6b62d81c2e4b4cd92ad98698
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to funnel users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing its role as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=wedding+program+thank+you
    • http://files.ractproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380521/nosizanerab.pdf
    • http://files.joshualinkmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379894/4a27a21d6b49.pdf
    • http://files.annasofiestensgaard.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453823/538e5f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7618/2426/files/52275670007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1855/9389/files/32965695856.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/robavapatukemekusoso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8680/7201/files/40903722510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4464/9630/files/74175318217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1960/7962/files/digiriduwepagujezogogija.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/xefefenuma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4764/8406/files/31263977752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2995/4721/files/foerster_algebra_and_trigonometry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/luzugojozawok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0278/0057/files/algorithms_by_sanjoy_dasgupta_edition_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2117/0850/files/xamagelemagovodeloxawimuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5559/5172/files/54229810830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2190/8640/files/6503827543.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5559/5172/files/5422

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061bb.bin
3e39c322259e8673f8323124787a27aa9f22f6c62c720d96399138de02354ad5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61BB 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073d2.bin
541cda9f2295b6fc06d420646eb878b9f0e3e25b52de2458ab1e33a156a881f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D2 9856 bytes