Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd938b5b498ed08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 14:07:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2d196b320e4698e6d1fd2cd8e83e0493 SHA-1: 46e1537e6b9d79bceb79a81c871509ab1631c3b9 SHA-256: ffd938b5b498ed083916b1a9743476795c4fa6157e4c5756b2295d37f44da454
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.ru). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO or distribute malicious content. 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/pify?keyword=southwest+asia+physical+features+worksheet
    • http://files.leusia.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874204/c628499c56145.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7967/files/discord_server_folder.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5999/4014/files/physiology_of_hearing_and_equilibrium.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1616/files/etiology_of_type_1_diabetes_mellitus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6986/6141/files/17329419412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5772/3030/files/zero_acceptance_number_sampling_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7679/4008/files/autocad_2020_drawing_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2728/files/12548832103.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4107/files/25040020497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0704/1958/files/nowiwilubob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3053/6614/files/t-_iv_transmission_fluid_autozone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0110/9920/files/28490297008.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8901/6472/files/13894654011.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_off00005ab4.bin
6ae4081dab904ec703a00aee5264cd2f09cb6be7ae3ca5c6562d9bd51e804818
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AB4 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d5d.bin
f1b5a9d48943fd06e8673d8f77244dbf2f7cd516b1b736dbdfc4b8c77c76ea6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D5D 10056 bytes