Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc517a9018fdc396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 19:41:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8eab6421f96e98d225fc50cd2a99d0a SHA-1: f4ff6f2734d6b4ff054b3ef82c95828d98999643 SHA-256: dc517a9018fdc3969dcf3c3b1d1f916af7e1f93e9c3c1ca51aa6a87d2ae7a347
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of suspicious links points to a delivery mechanism designed to lure users to potentially harmful 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=code+formatter+sublime+3
    • http://gumobewi.jenningsrn-to-bsn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739017/wutewa-molegutafabuji-tifap-lewogu.pdf
    • http://rabelelud.radiantmothermassage.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302942/337101.pdf
    • http://mesoxuxef.nmillerillustration.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/tedex.pdf
    • http://files.taleinferno.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/kivetopoxaveg.pdf
    • http://files.jmccarthyphoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874400/zanotan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4516/5975/files/python_game_code_copy_and_paste.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xopiforosolakalaxelavur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3649/0398/files/nokugebowivoviz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5263/4005/files/60928654316.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5949/4560/files/definicion_de_energia_nuclear.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4749/4567/files/zofimamerovor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6022/3387/files/2149779363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4183/9511/files/aptitude_test_past_papers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4959/9644/files/lurilin.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_off00006bc7.bin
ef6c4220a3d5ae966169f12bd2c929cfb5d7f3b5d23bea3ff1ffac3fdbaac230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BC7 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d8c.bin
0e9a69e9f0a83e98e2fb219cf6271abc625d055740f159790c0072ff00f0993d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8C 11112 bytes