Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 155eec3bf2a35e83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 09:29:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 388b5c96f70e4109b786442245fc3c42 SHA-1: 7a80e6d4f9ce4b9071f4547813ff5e9ed5db4e33 SHA-256: 155eec3bf2a35e837edefd44d61b43644cc5e174c52bc451aecc79cebb360002
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 redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=the+5th+wave+book+1+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The document body and embedded links suggest a tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites under the guise of providing book resources. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=the+5th+wave+book+1+pdf
    • http://mapopej.amydowell.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969627/gajigumogixape_wolitafisipa_dexux.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6563/7019/files/14143112891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2608/7841/files/modified_overt_aggression_scale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3236/0613/files/soxulabulovogifube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2132/files/zutaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1409/2960/files/simon_xt_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4571/6129/files/difarupasokibexobo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0730/2037/files/tolon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8103/1064/files/35116663640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3582/0185/files/zojusemuzezujoseje.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_off00005977.bin
eba5f58fac8c25ab517246bd09027a77192b3d3d27414698ef6c09bdb6937e91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5977 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ba4.bin
949269cebbce10a8897d9e1ef9f77d0d741318e5678ae1d96c849a7c924584b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA4 10076 bytes