Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6de108169991ec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 13:12:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 365b341843013c718621c73c168b7442 SHA-1: 673a9626e652147067a41a59651554d50f525859 SHA-256: b6de108169991ec586809f45cb81651e5fda183cea0eb4502c61dd57d1d1534d
152 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 Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru', which is disguised with a search query for 'latest android version 2019 phone'. This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious 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=latest+android+version+2019+phone
    • http://mosogin.victoriaminks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/siluzupezomaxole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5811/9334/files/598976964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1936/9639/files/apert_syndrome_review.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7507/files/tevafosovukotana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2993/8855/files/kivogabiranop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2905/4118/files/starbound_full_game_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9191/0038/files/cardiopatias_congnitas_pediatria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9444/8030/files/mifugagewawebabifaxujano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3014/3395/files/74184372618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vuwotowomezi.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_off000060b7.bin
f6f367b4e0282b626369d700a2f012db226b64a12fe1cd91de67a431523335e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60B7 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007366.bin
8329e00fdd4f3376cba99c49d9d44df470d756cbe7f6f50b260863e0491ec8ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7366 10800 bytes