Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 199fdeff639e545d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 15:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e43d10eaeb702d2e06403a507657016 SHA-1: ebf1ace0aa7d1bacddfd711783122bf7022505c5 SHA-256: 199fdeff639e545d13770372904472c271058c517081f5a43a299c8a88371180
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 external PDF files hosted on Shopify and other domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=byomkesh+movie+series', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, indicating an attempt to lure the user 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=byomkesh+movie+series
    • http://tenixabe.christ-presbyterianchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379992/504a59.pdf
    • http://files.pinchalog.de/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712093/40a6d28054.pdf
    • http://files.viktorcage.shop/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871704/c2b236.pdf
    • http://files.avianoreunion.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970022/6cce6ccd79358de.pdf
    • http://files.petervinthagen.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069987/zozudu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1255/files/70892730577.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85947343199.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1796/0604/files/58398595477.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2011/3304/files/oxford_bookworms_factfiles_stage_3_the_usa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1633/1172/files/pukalazotokibew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2135/2606/files/23865787197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7786/8443/files/limakoguke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/67473394177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6282/files/bovamadagobixukexirikobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9013/0584/files/behavioural_theory_of_counselling.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_off00007632.bin
1ccad1fe096b938d4a305605b7c2bb5d1dd3b34eafc3ac2830a0378df388f091
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7632 4956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008700.bin
d2274c610416fc166c9757d5a7a3102015ce2019086013faf797cf9c92154190
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8700 10256 bytes