Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d97c782a59844cc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 04:04:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d80d02efd7c09a051ae623242da9d821 SHA-1: f9445255481be766d5515efc4e9b619d8304559a SHA-256: d97c782a59844cc90c8b866331b772ecd75f6e362d7596b4c4706737146058aa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a free piano sheet music download. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify URLs, likely part of a link farm to improve SEO and distribute the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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/pify?keyword=flares+the+script+piano+sheet+music+free
    • http://tefijafa.mychangingthenarrative.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437421/renimegin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6122/9206/files/thermo_scientific_cdna_synthesis_protocol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4732/9702/files/musorewuzijebilomilojamen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bofudajix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3098/4357/files/konisusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0456/9949/8140/files/api_platform_swagger_yaml.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5721/files/roweka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7451/8180/files/18296910236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9354/7424/files/sonic_2_long_version.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7541/2902/files/jopiraxixevozepuwelumaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2122/1533/files/lodibijemejoliguxite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7966/files/mesifobulasupodik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/anlodipino_bula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1179/1257/files/84311732453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8799/4792/files/butefisekovuwajefalobap.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_off00004bdc.bin
58209cfce69a517fa33038ff7642e511d7360cd226920efc3182294b12d0578e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BDC 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d62.bin
87bb9ba2e7550f7eebae6d06e348421c8783c9890991405b820a42cc38297405
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D62 10292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000080e0.bin
fb7b45e24c28c4473d0ca1c6410c593992d9a809009f9c41b5ae32c9142507dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E0 16120 bytes