Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f6486f169880ae6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 20:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e20d14ed4efb147bea8691c9721a6464 SHA-1: 5b6aa0a15f2fcb78129d35f9bf29c74929731be7 SHA-256: 0f6486f169880ae65d75081149dd77a8a5b1c120fc69b190a58355b9055288a6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are designed to appear as legitimate PDF files hosted on Shopify. However, one of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=carcassonne+safari+rules+pdf', is a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to direct users to malicious infrastructure.

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=carcassonne+safari+rules+pdf
    • http://files.basingstokeconsortium.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483201/7462761f2f1.pdf
    • http://files.liveplayband.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384777/dasigulovujoze.pdf
    • http://defevo.drstevenjadlow.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/1575114.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5466/0758/files/35559909230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/juzopuzenafososokazulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8270/3257/files/calendario_2020_argentina_con_semanas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1375/7339/files/49367923251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6221/5324/files/78852786494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4306/9845/files/boschung_s2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8362/7686/files/62776216832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9946/files/magovapali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6561/files/livilagowa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7813/9556/files/4936282483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4855/0050/files/statistical_data_analysis_explained.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0607/4780/files/18259699231.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_off00005ef3.bin
0551bd44ce1985746a694e38f99fa389552967fce6ebd0b3007d2491bf8c7268
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EF3 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007029.bin
f18808a91efce6a48d810b7436768695a849c2ec2e2222a21149115b1f30e616
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7029 9684 bytes