Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1a6b676a126d633…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:58:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b277b2dd2be7c8264f2727e1258df065 SHA-1: 027910b414b9d31a48e22db3f079c0fbd9b22f84 SHA-256: f1a6b676a126d633ceb160b7d18a288695c7fcedce36ff0e3bef51962a26a944
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical of phishing attempts. It contains a critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK firing, pointing to ttraff.ru, which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and numerous other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • 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 29 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=chess+board+3d+model+free
    • http://files.bluemountainseimei.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070124/dowajixupu.pdf
    • http://sovipe.newportplant.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398455/42ad20e3adb83.pdf
    • http://files.howardtaikeff.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740625/de1d386cd2d53f.pdf
    • http://perage.ihmphotography.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814423/987580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5042/6780/files/35929677365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9601/5773/files/tazufesojusitegefenizoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3284/5207/files/fukafufadawosofamaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9724/2280/files/hockey_score_sheet_sticker_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7179/0486/files/95179403120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5743/1196/files/neregosibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2874/1272/files/pdf_bohemian_rhapsody_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/kajajafagigavetetod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6434/5255/files/lujudajubokodola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8760/9497/files/majepepifezisode.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_off00003da1.bin
90fbf10fa97296693aaa8b93a714e3dcc946fcea59ff705227b0e6bb924e892d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3DA1 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00004fa3.bin
487e1e0d24cd7597e0b2f84e1321a3f604dc7ce4a53c07f9fb361d0576d00b3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FA3 7940 bytes