Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 014e5f7d003e8845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 16:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e2effaa6f10104aa669e70b603268305 SHA-1: 36f42cb513a7f022fec9a81fbfa15bda3592a096 SHA-256: 014e5f7d003e8845ea696c2d7679aa17295c32a3468c734a46a1d8bea5a8fd36
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aircraft+structural+dynamics+pdf`. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the same URLs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also 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=aircraft+structural+dynamics+pdf
    • http://files.masasailing.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873921/904ca.pdf
    • http://files.protectgladewatershed.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303312/xixojatexozufiz.pdf
    • http://files.wesleymerced.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164358/b419f09c7.pdf
    • http://files.karennirefugees.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437702/2359061.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kevaziretojigadogikoranab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6871/0300/files/18747913680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8149/7766/files/vidupimefud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7031/4903/files/93265135662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8140/8420/files/91943677159.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9805/4558/files/37926044572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6706/1910/files/aether_mod_1._7_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7342/files/nuruwulebew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9860/3669/files/zofogevajusajikitudi.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_off00005657.bin
94ba048d7291bf56baa51325c155f2a5b0ce57f76319957ae3c2e7d8db5c3f3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5657 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068a4.bin
6abe7a39e5555b16e244388399d8cdff8f2235ab4c495058ee1635c66cf505e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A4 10640 bytes