Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e81193c88f96e61f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 04:01:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f46645c425bdf72c1673c29669889237 SHA-1: 7cbbe1374ce089ef1572e0e7d60cd87a93786289 SHA-256: e81193c88f96e61fa1a1b37232ab50b3a7cb0b357b04b241cae0fda834393945
152 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 redirector leads to a link farm of 16 PDFs hosted on Shopify. The document body contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The overall pattern suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious content, likely for SEO poisoning or ad fraud.

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=classifying+triangles+by+sides+and+a
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8839/files/58208639878.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4685/5078/files/41389007020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/34783059557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6285/2761/files/she_talks_to_angels_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7786/1527/files/68568942130.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6533/4165/files/fugegonunote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3892/4181/files/50100814586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4340/4441/files/30650754883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/couch_to_5k_free_app_android.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7aad1a7d4d234b7d821a4e902bbc6bbb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15216b0e15844e7fbff76eea20b523a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f1780b_57165bd3522840068dcdd718c3110c8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/253000_40de6d40b0d84e37803139e9a5aed791.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c01d6638b6094a0299b3f2a9bd41b394.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_6829a507fd8d4699801f0c61dfad277e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cd79e3_835cff1116364a3eb80203c279bbd80c.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_off0000566f.bin
002646d85599f5f94a1af442cf1e19dbb8b59e42ad211633374e78ff73a78ba9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x566F 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000683b.bin
040646b37a48fc2e55d670267c65a5b0b5973a6477170a3cb529138000cb001e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x683B 10804 bytes