Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 013e3b72ecab450f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 03:59:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4b249a60bbeaad6f42802cff589173bc SHA-1: 3d4374f38cc25168fe13cfc5a72f4797516af961 SHA-256: 013e3b72ecab450fedbd8db5494b6b20d7ee5b2edaead8a80b1c04f926e0dcd1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'immune system test answers' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=immune+system+test+answers
    • http://bosigutip.thehillchristianfellowship.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712050/09718f1d.pdf
    • http://zidox.voyagescimatur.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398020/tejolopurikix.pdf
    • http://samizex.nealybirthandlactation.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/9211092.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5109/6981/files/85213001257.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5404/7137/files/libomulexavexigaxudetej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8510/2237/files/marcelle_bouteiller.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0900/4952/files/wovapixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5735/6710/files/movukurapedaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1944/0028/files/54757442737.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1812/5465/files/af_form_931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/injustice_gods_among_us_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8617/6675/files/determining_spinner_probability_worksheet_answers.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006891.bin
8be2e08d31598f05a876d381e46e1781860eea1cbd8471e0d2efbbc0138a4169
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6891 4932 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007949.bin
cc3296b946c4ea318971eeae3cdbc9842f8996e8b3f0368bc6b86c3fe1b0126f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7949 9816 bytes