Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c59aff3ddac0851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-28 05:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 47e3eb4e6af069d760c7a5aa13b80ac3 SHA-1: 97bb9fec0e7cf5c0fbf5126eef9b1042513dbe93 SHA-256: 0c59aff3ddac085183559986a4379eb0ff1b1d6232428b2de48b10ae2c03ce65
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=immunology+made+ridiculously+simple', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, indicating an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful 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=immunology+made+ridiculously+simple
    • http://files.brisbanedanceworkshop.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813923/65b02.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7754/1787/files/surah_ahad_nama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3605/5454/files/nizifafazozegofis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/hapkido_self_defense_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6032/8608/files/perevamufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0020/9319/files/96388005600.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3161/7945/files/interview_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6676/1120/files/dogala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3491/8302/files/why_cant_i_download_a_sims_4_expansi.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_off00004ad8.bin
9152aa683c3d8552a995f6e56a7766714d1e1601d8bb8973220db335d1f29668
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AD8 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c80.bin
abfcb5841ec6414837fe5f3b4bead4ee341dad0774ecb119fbe099156e017756
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C80 9648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007d77.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D77 4324 bytes