Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16753df6a9b01af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cd2f5e741e3c635d0499329d8f61f37b SHA-1: df0b41a43bbbe2014d95656ed800f23a9ad64ce1 SHA-256: 16753df6a9b01af68cc619e82b1cb973e49ee92bff23b01e25bfdd909e604f11
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=mastering%20algorithms%20in%20c%20pdf`. This indicates a likely SEO spam or phishing campaign aiming to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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/wb?keyword=mastering%20algorithms%20in%20c%20pdf
    • http://gimidaf.chang4japan.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437792/navaremusevizut_jemivulufasu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6044/5855/files/levenoxixuforojaxewujaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3603/2680/files/74560607783.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3348/3674/files/annuity_basics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/varefejawowin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0120/7193/files/ccna_security_exam_topics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2528/5791/files/99350243196.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/budexojimomamuzarumedi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7578/7157/files/32671886040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1585/6550/files/dilixizevipewebal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8127/4278/files/binary_multiplication_examples.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000056f5.bin
c59a3d19e9538694979511cd63f84485569a512d7fbc23c40d99e63de1fc42b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56F5 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000069b8.bin
8f9d93f9661d58e8ffb4d9ae9734b87ce1b20b2d9c7ad35d475de183932216a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69B8 9896 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008be1.bin
19d0894bf2a0a209c2bc6c27d26cb982d75e8fd8761870186466eed69c5254ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BE1 16920 bytes