Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7e5b865cdbd2f79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 20:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0fc04f1691fb64f8a6c773adf759984b SHA-1: 45af4cb8c000fe6bd34d2a913292098905d84c9c SHA-256: d7e5b865cdbd2f792e51dfa9d00531c302d789a3791401a8e0e2866b17fd3426
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates that these links point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

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=canchalagua+propiedades+pdf
    • http://files.dysfunctionalbmx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738752/345128.pdf
    • http://files.schoollibraryoutloud.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380342/xesopagekamozek.pdf
    • http://files.ccrha.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775154/sowazopitodur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9769/4109/files/75953032472.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3729/4745/files/clinical_research_associate_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4669/files/lupazilakove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0986/7929/files/revijikodumixadosigejuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7460/0598/files/6378230272.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8752/8103/files/58551248321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3024/8600/files/xaroxep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9590/8761/files/cystic_hygroma_management.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2674/files/5745662600.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1682/1672/files/causes_of_anxiety_disorders.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1302/0570/files/79568330417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7762/3201/files/56332450201.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_off0000c869.bin
680d8ca3171e4f93c6712641e9033efcdefa523e4aba67f9540c6e4193eab382
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC869 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000da75.bin
65877a97ad025ea67b0e4cc7e162b0b9a01a1731bb74c19e86ea29722f8a5af8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA75 10176 bytes