Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 366e37da24be489d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 11:48:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de348f6111240841b35a4b9230934e1f SHA-1: 8d3514a00d25b22a1918f4a0957e069afca53795 SHA-256: 366e37da24be489dab33d00bf192d6ee6307ba721949d247fcf059cab2c30b71
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=first+aid+training+guide+vanilla', is presented as part of the document's content, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to distribute further payloads.

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=first+aid+training+guide+vanilla
    • http://files.ryanmuddiman.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856173/6627214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4136/5922/files/batavitujub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0350/1989/files/wujizijopitigolu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9622/0572/files/tswana_culture_and_traditions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3883/2800/files/91287832780.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1688/6184/files/gta_5_doomsday_heist_hacking_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/kiganizazifitexonezuxeba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/jolinimuzumufif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7173/7749/files/calendrio_2020_365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4360/2080/files/best_book_for_data_structures_and_algorithms_in_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4650/files/vigesopen.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_off000073b5.bin
2d97f8edb1b3b8fd7d4d1100e0598202f562815ff2f88c2508d3eb5ca8cd795d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B5 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084c8.bin
29b0e4e4d2c6a514df305ae9229b940356185492cf4ed286508ccebb30a4311d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84C8 10420 bytes