Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd6d2f9cb3451ee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 23:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14430410df3421039889717db98a8865 SHA-1: 9aee1b4fa02110b7e7dd1a206842e43e516e8199 SHA-256: fd6d2f9cb3451ee5bfb5e3f982996f519e74442f663b710cb093d791f7e6df9a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic, suggesting the document's purpose is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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/pify?keyword=dialogue+writing+worksheets+for+class+6
    • http://nebumowud.alcuin.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/5118384.pdf
    • http://files.mountainkindphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738943/wirar.pdf
    • http://files.writingforthefences.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452735/xubexejuduki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4885/files/attestation_de_stage.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1797/files/5965651836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8120/3873/files/58451474708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9443/4207/files/sql_server_database_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9384/3356/files/come_together_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8683/0998/files/felibavixupakewokin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2332/7644/files/free_sheet_music_apps_for_ipad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5964/1496/files/23146645002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5511/1589/files/dotutorigokat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8729/7696/files/36801328566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3429/5966/files/funny_cute_cat_images.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_off000066c2.bin
d17ad80da7be5bffbbd2ddaf94b4890ca64f5fda03ab2b2eea9c66e46ecf8b3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C2 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007961.bin
060e5dd8fe03a19130acb4786c60ed0cb113d0ae2faff370f164c64af6e76769
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7961 10072 bytes