Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2898d5e1791c8573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 15:03:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 195f87065ec2d93d92337a3c281a0c0b SHA-1: a6953d0b4f692bbe9734e8e6fbb296ee2cdc1375 SHA-256: 2898d5e1791c85730a162b7073c6131eacf2e360c206dbdb6453765f14bf79e3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a high number of embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=schistosomiasis+cdc+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely to obscure the malicious intent. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs.

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=schistosomiasis+cdc+pdf
    • http://tasefewe.niosha.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637021/b5aef1ec61.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1625/6662/files/apostila_de_calculo_de_caldeiraria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4872/9766/files/52369114387.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2143/4005/files/30032261557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4964/7261/files/cacti_template_windows_2012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/auditoria_administrativa_libro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1515/9458/files/dogoxuviko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9940/5979/files/wirenelubujezoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96226605796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2428/4824/files/oceanography_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6777/6919/files/ripulirevifovipinog.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000610a.bin
a37801c3d6a8ac40fc31cb9335e70ad11a583c9acb61e01f1aa1202039b8964a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x610A 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071c7.bin
a39328e2ac408e2afaeda9c0de2312b16f121b9b34053b557551f127ef0649a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71C7 11528 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000096a5.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96A5 4324 bytes