Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5e7aa7cd3165653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 10:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b8456a02dace7bb31f9547212bb61470 SHA-1: e5fd5e7445c0b2823db53e7dbaea70bc7bb7d4f7 SHA-256: f5e7aa7cd3165653cc4ddf8d693a73b2fd94c870a7cd2a2545a634995e0ca11a
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with at least one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=educators+financial+group+forms, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF links, reinforcing the link-based attack vector.

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/pify?keyword=educators+financial+group+forms
    • http://files.kdsgiftboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636855/sabezagivi.pdf
    • http://nagagi.digitaltogrow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739835/a2484.pdf
    • http://files.carollongpottery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776200/nexobirovo.pdf
    • http://files.whitneykimpton.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438639/9369832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7682/0890/files/slope_intercept_form_solving_for_b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/1116/2531/files/alvida_alvida_full_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7478/1338/files/46251210109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7183/6055/files/al_final_del_arcoiris.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2092/2528/files/house_rent_agreement_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/5178/0005/files/catheterization_procedure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0011/7928/files/escala_de_glasgow_blatchford.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4216/9244/files/zapinajegevozojoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6009/1287/files/soxenadeguwixobuwiwilugub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5370/9472/files/nedibafijewogiwudubow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3809/7051/files/8068683552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3591/7464/files/telugu_abhisarika.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_off00006e57.bin
895c83837188acf0edc92ba8b4e600157d04788e696914e83a2d31dd75cf51fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E57 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080bc.bin
9376c322a43e71fc051450bc68a0177185ba4d0147744ec0248f363f058796c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80BC 10280 bytes