Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d90206a6c79ae2fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e735240d784535a0758dbf9fc1f917c3 SHA-1: f5d34f588c4612aa636dc8ea3fe7fa2eb95b1429 SHA-256: d90206a6c79ae2fc13ccbdb9e3434900d26f5d974665e74dd080492a7c2c6385
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a Skyrim mod download, aiming to trick the user into clicking it. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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/wix?keyword=skyrim+child+follower+mod
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/1817/4884/files/tarejoditaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9786/files/26661268268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2966/6724/files/spanish_to_english_translation_dictionary_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8886/2622/files/kefug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3010/1668/files/15537279117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2797/9678/files/rowizatewef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6438/5951/files/57440824891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3355/8172/files/portuguese_to_english_dictionary.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6a48830810ed4c32a71d3450ff964d25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cafc24_c24fa5877f454d5089ef9eb035371799.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cafc24_627115c515434c9b834e349d88b94cdc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0971/2021/files/sniper_3d_games_for_android_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7201/1941/files/tusex.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_off00006a44.bin
3dac68a3e966fc55af4fd1a9e81e6f09ebb5e3a2aff4f225ecf07ee9ecf53a3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A44 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c03.bin
83cffaecdeb349b6c0d71f5ee8ae9eca7764641f4e050f8be326e373970db8cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C03 10360 bytes