Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfdd868d4d817a2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb5ea7d259433cb5a7c35fc40072a26c SHA-1: d419b4e069b414f53ecfc525626cc46edbd24613 SHA-256: dfdd868d4d817a2c8726a1a1d6b1c50836e6b50497dc53d1395b8c38e10cee3a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the mass distribution of links designed to lead 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=animals+worksheets+for+primary+pdf
    • http://files.sletours.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407029/b0a98bf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/bodurelenogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1246/4535/files/dolafejatuxurakes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2727/4645/files/22339702613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6222/2232/files/11032589802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1637/files/venoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1750/2869/files/22147017460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/metal_gear_solid_5_direct_contract.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3591/7464/files/rational_functions_examples_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4539/6384/files/mixidif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8336/5528/files/5483775370.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_off000070b2.bin
aa369ac527905e808939f46e2a8396bdcde2f58801410c61921591fdac0fb3cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70B2 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082a4.bin
925406095b5511c29254f0cef7cd26c661258cafeb97de92d533498b77dc799f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82A4 13292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ad56.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD56 4324 bytes