Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1435e5f7b2588dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1bda9c0f005a87fa76f2243b45e8c11f SHA-1: d4352352de093ada91cd4f5efbdb8361c21dd06c SHA-256: f1435e5f7b2588dd01f13fb73a170b403720a2039edc672abc0a6fc617acedf9
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is designed as an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns. It contains a critical link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which likely leads to further malicious content. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 28 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=cpall+annual+report+2014
    • http://files.annapurnasriram.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453143/dolowo.pdf
    • http://ligogu.pyrodraccostudios.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738680/deseliguma.pdf
    • http://zimuvak.madisontoth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775987/28abe8d2b1be71.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3225/5392/files/fupafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4565/6488/files/web_application_security_testing_checklist.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5177/7185/files/group_bourdon_test_practice_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5150/7094/files/23734862201.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2521/1298/files/12764691547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/720p_hd_camera_eyewear_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8133/4935/files/cyanogenmod_11_4._4_4.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_off00003be7.bin
d11419a1a426df97ecf86b26e668b0fa8ed3bd8696f9ca79e65e3349732d2a36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3BE7 4952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00004ccf.bin
2b1a8d997a5d50f36ec74f8c201517cc50d188135a1b7581f70c2c95722e4818
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CCF 7912 bytes