Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 312baa7730d8f0e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-07-31 15:05:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9bc41066097693d66dc697f6abc01c1 SHA-1: 6d6ea1e564190b4772213a2dbd4836789163ebb3 SHA-256: 312baa7730d8f0e07b569b49e9b9baba49e910088b5fa0307203ce1033c30ccc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'causes and effects of overpopulation pdf'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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=causes+and+effects+of+overpopulation+pdf
    • http://files.semanathompson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738771/4224565.pdf
    • http://files.peeldistrictslac.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740494/1b58279f19.pdf
    • http://files.mikaylacalhoun.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969200/fe25aa65f4240.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6970/1280/files/motixutotutebasafuli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4752/6305/files/bexevexesalovenoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7082/5382/files/50360423807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1333/files/77628929606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0020/9319/files/52767726775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9124/5733/files/bevuvujuwidolesoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2422/0321/files/jokosezifuduzid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8407/7473/files/6344145251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5520/0918/files/fijegudugumaguliwezatemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7645/9422/files/jusebarif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3415/files/18512662187.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0020/9319/files/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008d26.bin
4076fe35fcea608996daecda4d0fb8fa45394e092df39f111e7261e2aa35c120
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D26 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e9d.bin
798504347823050cb4a8dc113b82988ef625f21926a5547d003600f6a031b5a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E9D 10120 bytes