Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b49b07a4ce6e54d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 06:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0fc349be5f5d471cddd2583425ffee48 SHA-1: 366b161f17896ea70211d13a49bca8be69ec275c SHA-256: b49b07a4ce6e54d0255ae5ee4db138c998c65045156f07920be99cc18b0149c8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kindle+book+formatting+problem'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, suggesting a spam or SEO-based distribution method. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially garbled, contains the lure text and the malicious URL, reinforcing the phishing or scamming intent.

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=kindle+book+formatting+problem
    • http://sowuw.wc911.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/lelesukujazidotazaxe.pdf
    • http://files.braznstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969746/2a9c3bc2d6.pdf
    • http://files.wardswaterpumps.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740204/ligexupowenik-rofibinu-tadixodetugujej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8774/9525/files/22509939295.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8184/files/xujivazedujised.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0177/3212/files/tikemuja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1697/7559/files/13508572326.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5942/1092/files/63486714616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6572/1503/files/21606162535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9472/1187/files/12321535700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3846/5435/files/best_csgo_config.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_off00006d0a.bin
d8066c82f92cd9f367f5ec68e3b9851f46c8022483b37fa4441abcc5e37d303e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D0A 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f1d.bin
57f6b13d314ce842d1da0d5db3cfba6c2f46c943d4adb67d56c3625001fa99b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F1D 11400 bytes