Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06375bd0f710028d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 22:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c82b203b31bfeda4507dda9fd37ab3c5 SHA-1: 4330e6e828a141a420645f599cacbe4f73cd11fa SHA-256: 06375bd0f710028d041862431f9ca82ac94f23d9cd926bfd202d6c8ac5022b32
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=magus+guide+pathfinder+kingmaker`, indicating a likely attempt to lure users to malicious content. 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=magus+guide+pathfinder+kingmaker
    • http://files.texmexconnection.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813317/damuxizi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2692/3172/files/body_mind_relationship.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7311/7087/files/free_registry_repair.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6745/7188/files/kobodipuxudobaliwuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7531/9448/files/5053004813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3633/4490/files/16629581526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4988/5606/files/12618519632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tufajotojitumawudawemir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4795/2294/files/78139534353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8576/5535/files/32377007754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4459/2021/files/components_of_computer_system_and_its_function.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4479/7606/files/sivogivazenadowesol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1080/8213/files/physiology_books_for_1st_year_mbbs.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_off000063df.bin
685d6aba4c7d2765451c806e4820ec13469e7440bd6a6fdbfc429edbca285d96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63DF 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007664.bin
bab6e54ad3acdade0afd0c43cfa18f785608ea95dff51011f7815635ac719911
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7664 9752 bytes