Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 155838832391e53d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:44:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fae1e5f6bf8c8b254ee5a9ee34c47d20 SHA-1: a51cb62165540c617b03382efc31db928bb48a7d SHA-256: 155838832391e53d20711a80e2c0477d02dae0e6ccb994aa93b445dd0c0dacc3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=gramercy+property+trust+annual+report', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs that are likely part of this link farm.

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=gramercy+property+trust+annual+report
    • http://files.theroverchasefoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069887/baxelovinu_nozuxuduzas_fagezuxurumimav_laleb.pdf
    • http://files.stmarksdurango.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740249/ruzuwagefawi-fumadup.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4101/4438/files/wegefexejifewolexuja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5710/9402/files/27256330571.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0456/8252/4319/files/2156242100.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6731/0231/files/72493270383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5544/6176/files/telugu_janapada_dj_audio_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/0166/9800/files/ielts_general_reading_sample_test_papers_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3795/7023/files/taoism_holy_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2630/0575/files/80217856443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6725/2641/files/2016821298.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3764/files/dovakonejinukogimavor.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_off0000a359.bin
2d61527f5b987212a3e5f050513623656bd48b34f0855dab8846fac188bfa3ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA359 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b508.bin
f81ab288d394239b489272de2fe59ae761e11e75ad6a40effc3c7e57249b1a7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB508 14316 bytes