Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4f0fc2561f9f614…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 15:47:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0fc3b2e09424a53c355ea11c1e176dcc SHA-1: 5896413c2ac1e4389757642276767fc2f5b5e2bc SHA-256: f4f0fc2561f9f614721d0b7885645b70e248d15687856709e6494d4ea94007be
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier 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.
  • 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=carbon+democracy+chapter+summary
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1362/files/97678139977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dagezaluvonanapukinuwit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8076/9951/files/amitriptyline_mechanism_of_action.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5054/0964/files/65063627848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5276/files/38168033797.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7238/files/63837636410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9936/files/ajit_bharti_memory_trainer_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7052/1495/files/baninizif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2881/4741/files/72090714821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7910/6724/files/analisis_financiero_horizontal_y_vertical.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9187/0375/files/frameset_html_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5352/1823/files/62613021107.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6610/5759/files/pokeblock_case_ruby.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4479/7600/files/moret.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_off0000d720.bin
95f0919abc5281415665956eddbbb2bb21f6bede8620cefcc51f9b44c60fe319
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD720 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e966.bin
a062ba43119ebfeffe0e778df734735817641946c0bba518e6eba68098f61636
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE966 10628 bytes