Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d72acac31c9a3da5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 06:38:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9feff20768ee6e21fd987784449ad3f SHA-1: b6f0771288f039059403ccc7e15b4f2d51b2daf9 SHA-256: d72acac31c9a3da5cc64439c7df19afd9121ac0b242f2507b59a309399fc3905
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-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a reference to 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating the PDF was likely generated programmatically to host these links. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure.

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=galvanized+sheet+meaning+in+marathi
    • http://notej.addresspriceright.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438356/zegifafejunag_bijok_nolavakevur.pdf
    • http://files.thefrederalistpapers.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/junix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6261/files/jspdf_autotable_angular_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4327/4402/files/rains_of_castamere_instrumental.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5029/4678/files/zerazarikup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8660/9573/files/wowumezuxepufokokivag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9035/7927/files/10059549473.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4058/7423/files/61296602568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/gemafej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0558/1211/files/dolor_abdominal_agudo_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3199/4280/files/36887264596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8030/2244/files/39148487354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2431/8618/files/airborne_express_case_study_answers.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_off0000620c.bin
5c3c3f3d65855fac2aaef7eeadb8d0df9835935c9c6d27412611761e396b58b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x620C 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000743e.bin
5982e31d9fa260dab849faa6ca14e42db90e5ed3f57b7f87454d5218990ae663
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x743E 10092 bytes