Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bbabe1e7ff55ae9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 10:55:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee1b9376a98b779769096db2cde9e7c4 SHA-1: 64530ef62279d9a4881a6e25c398cc4c9548b690 SHA-256: 3bbabe1e7ff55ae9cffb1ee4baad4c4d9c1e5aa2e8561f679fbc0171b16d7801
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The embedded URLs, including 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=zoey+101+cotton+swabs', suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of outbound links points to a spam or phishing campaign.

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=zoey+101+cotton+swabs
    • http://files.odylicforce.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856380/aa4eb6d0f1d0.pdf
    • http://files.lifegivingwaterinternational.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437724/rewidipafij.pdf
    • http://files.gregmoffattknives.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696112/lujubibuwi.pdf
    • http://files.merelmarytheblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856333/9390043.pdf
    • http://files.thepioneercrafthouse.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383613/jeledawifazab-mewuwesarivaf-pogegajepepato-kekafawesifum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1641/files/tarudesum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4746/0768/files/pifezalofenidusasepadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/72966212333.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4852/5206/files/51399675431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/949986333.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66691602327.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7784/3609/files/tugis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9322/1783/files/58835787287.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8496/files/55712689796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9340/9438/files/23324894797.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4553/6419/files/2835485140.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_off000069d8.bin
0e060a74d5028f8dd41c1c0bc231202c82112882dfb85843642ebc9fca5ed8d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69D8 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b94.bin
bbb0346d642d34006312374ad18bfb268caae6ab3eaabb6a07a755a17211d376
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B94 10656 bytes