Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ded05ba1e1d9c906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c78b47dd849802d376d3fd54f9ffd98a SHA-1: b2386198a4cee11f35ddf0e48222dce8a6275a26 SHA-256: ded05ba1e1d9c90699abd555cf7f0952068e25a2623b73929e38c2fe6c6b0962
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and another flagging a 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=accordion+booklet+template', suggesting a lure to a redirector service. The presence of numerous links, including to Shopify domains, indicates an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or 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=accordion+booklet+template
    • http://files.coolrydescustoms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/gigopujaxixe.pdf
    • http://files.parachuteteachers.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969762/f4c1b9cbb.pdf
    • http://files.catchabussouth.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813362/fesoketo-bedota-pefevif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8448/9631/files/visuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7983/4531/files/reversed_phase_chromatography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/windows_10_environment_variables.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8107/1782/files/ferevikit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9167/9639/files/54077441828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3494/3388/files/13731036356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5062/3385/files/31497471090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6933/3916/files/rubawamotumixujugududes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9541/7237/files/59397299519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/73115276165.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_off0000927f.bin
4802a04a89b9298a4ecdf96084937761009caaae3003e84dc08614b5e26afe39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x927F 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a429.bin
d3675ca48acd54e49b0eeef134fe9fa52be358a66937934d750babfb78277e83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA429 10288 bytes