Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9eeee3c76e5618e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 05:35:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d0681884ec7e320b8939eabce43a411b SHA-1: e48a2ad58914209a68c7e34be1af833a80a449e0 SHA-256: c9eeee3c76e5618eb7d39dcf4db8619df376ba1707f23ee73ee1b91ced48382b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. One of the embedded URLs, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=schema+amplificateur+audio+pdf, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the sheer volume of outbound links points to a malicious intent, likely to drive traffic or manipulate search rankings.

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=schema+amplificateur+audio+pdf
    • http://files.simplydivinesuds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407812/23f3d849.pdf
    • http://files.blwcenter.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/zofaxapazodi.pdf
    • http://files.stuartlewisphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454316/f40da78bb8dd86.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0138/7936/files/jivikutugegulogesifix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9501/4056/files/33794503608.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6595/6760/files/62444758932.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6392/5149/files/65998927601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6793/9743/files/jodobavex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8107/8686/files/jekipegonoziw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7362/6524/files/95193793786.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0082/2934/files/58151191820.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4467/files/62902726933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7833/6165/files/89016921896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8581/6217/files/44209626311.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_off00006038.bin
237f8beddf4006a19040c713f909b24d0f1358c4705a1d761c57c3bc20470530
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6038 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000722b.bin
ebe5d918d8a793d4a9e5655aa20049b368d266ab6ff0203cb33b98786aff2e2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x722B 10048 bytes