Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03551f77cfedfdbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 23:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21f1ef6b59146573418dd540c4e27e53 SHA-1: c5e022fe15a43de19020f7b8111c44cd9dc3649b SHA-256: 03551f77cfedfdbfff61d6afc0935ba5d2cc7e5b096d99269aab3af9a47f567d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF documents hosted on Shopify and other domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary links directs to `https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=enfp+premium+profile`, which is flagged as malicious redirector infrastructure. 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/wix?keyword=enfp+premium+profile
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5670/0319/files/13885179961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4833/6536/files/jogipapovetubivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5317/0339/files/cambridge_fce_speaking_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xasojikunu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_73b8128cf8eb4dcb8ecc122c4325285c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c6162e7ae99f4d2786f0eabd5d9605a5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82e8055f5a22495692bf1ad55f98445c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c6863ba88144bb3a23b51bf74ff5727.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c2bacb699132473b95a56e6745e9b6dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0887dcaaabfa42f485b4679c9130eee4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/299074_5bc6b5da9ca848cbbb93d0453c732fd4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_216199422f274026a51ee88479231818.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e41.bin
386cba8e82d85a90b83c2e11f63891920114aedc767cfe75e0541678d1f543c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E41 4416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d1d.bin
7ad0ed8f0fb730e3aaf5be7be8828b30b601e3fb8e70d7f2f9d09e731c760ad0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D1D 10176 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008fe6.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FE6 4324 bytes