Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07b439ccc79bdff2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 22:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 75eae48f3f22360160aff0d6ba491d40 SHA-1: 6b432b59384959badc7bfa7063bc46a38d2bfb69 SHA-256: 07b439ccc79bdff251feb2fecbaa59d1b8e73798cba139ba0f9b973cf3c7eec1
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 external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=consumer+reports+best+buy+hand+mixers, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to this URL, indicating an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

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=consumer+reports+best+buy+hand+mixers
    • http://files.niozhair.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776619/0a098ed7b.pdf
    • http://files.scenerychanges.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969220/jinogemimixumu.pdf
    • http://files.missiongolfacademy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712333/26186e.pdf
    • http://files.andthatmeanscomfort.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406086/e9bf6f45.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2096/8358/files/24392398153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0191/3244/files/26937232616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2182/0313/files/73483205916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/14159166874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5263/7091/files/zotupajefajukipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/37220087717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9427/8293/files/fisofar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/irs_form_944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6276/9302/files/befas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/agile_methodology_free_ebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7532/1499/files/fundamental_accounting_principles_20th.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_off00008471.bin
785cf38650fd636e45921108b43987fb2ffcd951546560a117451e057a8b4558
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8471 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000968a.bin
23262dc5affb93357dac05f498c8172663cb8d976ff4f8b37548063b462efb16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x968A 10420 bytes