Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 185d02e4261b0bd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 23:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 297973d3a7f2e1098c18dc3034cd3b59 SHA-1: e8f34364dfa90667cc2db57cf3f6a7b735ca5a29 SHA-256: 185d02e4261b0bd1dbdb7013b3b8f3288912cf2ed7afafa1c397f066d4e0702b
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 Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cetoacidosis+diabetica+sociedad+espa%25C3%25B1ola+de+pediatria+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, indicating it is the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the malicious redirector strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=cetoacidosis+diabetica+sociedad+espa%25C3%25B1ola+de+pediatria+pdf
    • http://files.beckerpark.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407918/6ef700b.pdf
    • http://files.annmariecooper.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163859/c9e70964.pdf
    • http://files.rolweshomes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682790/libebukarazidap.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3253/4440/files/bareto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6127/8885/files/mapabidegupaluz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0596/7514/files/bavowotifutanabirov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1715/0368/files/lowal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0402/files/46444486755.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6577/0135/files/jefuwetegezapogodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jaled.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3087/9136/files/sifobedugod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2416/0667/files/31779367676.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_off00007062.bin
259ba7217e2a1820e1d15e885361b80c249eb7b216d49750bf008592c83cba33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7062 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000827b.bin
677acbfaddef6a49bcf1a3cce6d5ea6485266d997658f48c6dbf787b6309272f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x827B 11576 bytes