Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed1aaa5d99e4b958…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 22:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c21fc3b84da36545e7fabbe272bb24df SHA-1: 89044cdaef6debacca72e8b85fff0e1812c31f02 SHA-256: ed1aaa5d99e4b9589c3fa08b4f0ef8261e1ed14373a6e2342b4fa1129f99764a
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique used to disguise malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of the malicious redirector URL indicates the primary attack vector is likely to lead the user to a compromised or malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=weber%20concertino%20clarinet%20sheet%20music%20pdf
    • http://files.zeenasopinion.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815228/xuwiged.pdf
    • http://files.coolgeekzatl.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969920/043dce.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3676/2527/files/generating_equivalent_expressions_lesson_10-_3_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8344/0030/files/kuramojabajimop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0686/0187/files/37908821750.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2839/7728/files/gifuwotiwawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2557/files/88454269517.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1410/2950/files/35505212598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6376/7203/files/motor_vehicle_repair_manuals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1947/4856/files/toefl_practice_test_speaking.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0646/6975/files/aeschynomene_americana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1043/1896/files/12442353095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6487/6444/files/fosakigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0231/3373/files/kixeruzimagimekif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8436/5468/files/motuli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7256/0033/files/ender_air_bottle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4549/files/barriers_to_communication_in_an_organisation.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_off00004a74.bin
80ba18b731f8150cd541a0446bbe62c098e2bc7a0c7840cccb151dd263158f92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A74 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d23.bin
9ec3a43d0a27f3189a60d1e40814da3e8c7a2375a28ae96e6caec359c8434d21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D23 10076 bytes