Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c20f15dfbf1173f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 11:14:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ab3e4fb0b4b639c16c57b21faa49d277 SHA-1: 2fb63daacb5254a8920259f2914727e2095d123c SHA-256: c20f15dfbf1173f8eb8bfefdccadfecc2902940afe2829d55425e6d5493aad38
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.ru). This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload delivery or execution.

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=principles+of+geotechnical+engineering+pdf
    • http://files.seattlescores.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814121/c149378f576.pdf
    • http://files.m30four.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379846/4364136.pdf
    • http://files.urbanpoiema.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775653/rorik_jenusepesevo_fusaladif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7084/9181/files/53194032115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8494/6333/files/juzabun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71860998709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5341/5576/files/78344864022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/kusozozobegakej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7542/6722/files/41813440489.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1556/1638/files/nimekizojidunijujemus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tefukina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1374/1472/files/derukaxawogibafoke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0263/4148/files/wabemejag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0741/8274/files/java_gui_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5122/9089/files/77467997412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7895/7718/files/90449398098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8203/9964/files/minedudeno.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005de2.bin
4a2608c4e00ba42c26f1ef7212c01f9fe791db9845ca5304880c89f254fff82e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DE2 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000703f.bin
2d35fe1b112251630f6c3e185fb4bf58c6327cea99f60afab3ca0473214b5b30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x703F 2116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007a0b.bin
982854dd3039db56c6d82f2ce1f83639439f0d2b1c2ce425fad34b366ccdf470
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A0B 15088 bytes