Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e8f03f026322b33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 03:59:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce074fa0b770422bf5b103d7179c5f5e SHA-1: 28d8c2997a5c7b0a742fc3190c98f4a1dc217a8a SHA-256: 0e8f03f026322b331839aed30f4c6f1aebb81025203d52c0bcbc64d44be47486
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 a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ostrich+farming+in+south+africa+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to ostrich farming and the wkhtmltopdf application, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The ML classifier 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/pify?keyword=ostrich+farming+in+south+africa+pdf
    • http://suterutu.artographicexplorations.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/2158817.pdf
    • http://files.align4life.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739154/zujoxagego-sejoloxuxek-xoxaraje-suditigafitoru.pdf
    • http://files.fantasticfoamparties.ca/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814272/niduluzenup.pdf
    • http://files.bethanywelchfitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874612/8ae5ec226e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1520/files/93867147906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4389/4934/files/42026845478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4375/0049/files/tigogaxinowuja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1187/3688/files/49509144859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5293/4044/files/random_number_between_1_and_40.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9830/0823/files/how_to_install_unofficial_oblivion_patch.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5322/6913/files/40427772543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1737/1797/files/27855075761.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1423/2984/files/sorujolopa.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_off00009c0f.bin
4192a98dd9a8daffc52c45d84d53e6934a1cb1e5851f2753836df23a57f3946d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C0F 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aecf.bin
6ee562958beeda17d7b96ba076c9c1ebc2d36257fd1110d4a6cda91f5c963357
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAECF 10752 bytes