Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8dbdcc611276d63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 13:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a78bd26ec14238d592a4befc7bcc0fb6 SHA-1: ff99e735b2511b87a5df47f07dd97126c46ae25f SHA-256: f8dbdcc611276d6336e3798c00eff60fd4fed8c6ecd36e4d6abffdd557a53c5e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector and a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which redirects to a page related to a vocabulary worksheet. While many other links point to benign Shopify domains, the presence of the malicious redirector and the sheer volume of links suggest an attempt to manipulate SEO or distribute malicious content through a link farm. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is largely unreadable binary data, limiting further analysis of intent beyond the link farm.

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=chapter+8+sensation+and+perception+vocabulary+worksheet
    • http://files.amygregorio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775027/99f46ea89.pdf
    • http://kovakine.salmoncreekcotons.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/wekat.pdf
    • http://fumosuw.dundasmassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/fubewim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3988/1373/files/25745170083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/91812603833.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5377/files/ashrae_170.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3415/4907/files/28692304627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0333/0208/files/koduwabevalenorovupev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7382/1082/files/11428039203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/23380826728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1474/8322/files/discord_link_text.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7861/5189/files/63571020857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1540/5725/files/webenam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6693/1862/files/45069365669.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/nilikefenaserodoritikuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vidabuvuwegorowomilamum.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_off000073b8.bin
7dfbad7cd6036ae7d12f3ecaec987bfa6fa0b539eb94950179de7c446f46e215
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B8 5716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008738.bin
66105fd63bfdcce9c337179bd6aca6287eb19971826964615f45c8dcfa6cfaed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8738 11152 bytes