Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ec50311bf8681d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 23:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4703920f50f43808045c11fe74484ba7 SHA-1: 1e5f8661793dd306d502076a5fb32e45056df0e5 SHA-256: 0ec50311bf8681d05af4a41d6e25ca4e27b92a2301e98e25a1e55a30324bc0b0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which are to Shopify-hosted PDFs. One embedded URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=printable+addition+worksheets+for+grade+3', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content, potentially as part of a phishing campaign.

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=printable+addition+worksheets+for+grade+3
    • http://lumega.rompenni.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/4089578.pdf
    • http://files.compromiseof1790.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437924/seluk_depenezetena.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0860/4829/files/izabella_camargo_reporter_globo_news.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6388/3429/files/31853350235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4430/5046/files/26071848240.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7727/0678/files/rixunikowafabudebasar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/a_current_affair_intro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9451/5614/files/kovalajesonu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3365/files/72586909259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4542/9160/files/36743351540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1481/4885/files/87946380045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2621/8134/files/error_reporting_php_none.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8911/5801/files/63119009245.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1479/7981/files/basic_civil_engineering_gtu_book.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_off00006773.bin
6575ad420ff0252dcba1824f0b997a6a76ab9825a56181df5b207d2026dadc0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6773 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a9f.bin
09d58ed9d31243fd20537a3f4e7d67f6123e4f45f7f32de72e9a3a040daed037
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A9F 12096 bytes