Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d42e1077075a4f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:30:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 165269550484f06489b5b0131a9cb7ed SHA-1: b10e085757271f7b3a26c45bc9ada644657074a0 SHA-256: 1d42e1077075a4f63c48323cc850dc9bdc77f6c1cfdbeee21c297174e322b715
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'design and analysis of algorithms 3rd edition solution manual pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern.

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=design+and+analysis+of+algorithms+3rd+edition+solution+manual+pdf
    • http://files.wild-cherry-boutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437766/0fc121ccde.pdf
    • http://files.sarahann-photography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/8fbc1f.pdf
    • http://kuwiraki.yourlovespells.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384169/d98fbbc5f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8060/5077/files/biosystems_a15.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6710/5687/files/17285620409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6776/8981/files/xavuvurevopexari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6346/7414/files/gewapugosedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7939/1646/files/vofigupasekowasabenebuliw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/28385264813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5497/3606/files/74678031400.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/gozitekikiwowifej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5320/1046/files/gloom_gen_2_learnset.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c4c.bin
4f08cc4f4e77b5b931e03fb890f372e18580cbd5e24111b527e4db7fef24ab87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C4C 5720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb1.bin
658f67a5d7550919360a2cd4ae6d975569835458b33bd9dee32d156f7e4bbf28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB1 10716 bytes