Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c8f325c9d0ed93e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 16:03:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 19ab64c17feac25b82587511e3e190c7 SHA-1: b9100da71ae4267879eca88ab67302b8e4a59625 SHA-256: 3c8f325c9d0ed93ef9c1aa48a112fd48fd8bf5b72b284fa7da81e9896dea0215
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=simple+english+speaking+course+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick the user into clicking it. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or distributing further malicious content.

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=simple+english+speaking+course+pdf
    • http://files.butterflykisseslashlounge.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070520/sozevekopaselun.pdf
    • http://badovipe.gamadin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453674/kirimipuze.pdf
    • http://files.nerdnotesguides.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681164/9187058.pdf
    • http://files.kirklandadventuregscamp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437671/jimiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6426/1797/files/76156148842.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3555/0111/files/nawelokitaxup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4463/3750/files/ajax_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/xexatevarugogonaronijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3098/5376/files/65109117553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1907/4712/files/brachi_o_medical_term.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2871/files/17484043772.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7113/6154/files/89815997425.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9220/4950/files/gugono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2358/0835/files/romarofixiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1828/7266/files/bobamot.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_off00006676.bin
4b2ffebc1102a47072d7561d281a9522b017be829377767ab1dfd2986c5def70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6676 5736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079d2.bin
e611455fc86814847bb3019b7105f138c9762a5e6ca0312556e57885f8adcd43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79D2 10116 bytes