Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45217c2a772a0fc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 15:45:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d41279d36aa3e8c1d396a77464024d2c SHA-1: cb8d3812cf723d39f118963f96b9c2e9c64ddcf5 SHA-256: 45217c2a772a0fc8ff7fb86a6487ad02e83723871b92533ad1b57af08faa9a53
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=study+spanish+comparisons+of+equality+answers', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs, reinforcing the link-based attack vector.

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=study+spanish+comparisons+of+equality+answers
    • http://files.iamwhatiart.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/1360335.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5195/files/wuteget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2579/1138/files/senixibosemedemirirupon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8933/7256/files/6597661143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/6405/0083/files/chest_guidelines_2016_hit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2170/5124/files/80175285657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1945/3095/files/15709077326.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0056/0803/files/19773411084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69892687871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1088/2727/files/dajekagifamugom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4531/3941/files/simple_html_game_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2838/0839/files/rejikisewojew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8951/7978/files/61225613969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4074/1275/files/57925500149.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_off0000499c.bin
22703f95daff0220de368f15b1c313faaee27d5a288ad70091c194339adc200b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x499C 5816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d4c.bin
bbfdcaef8412af3741745bf7a1eb29f5651d7f9c314ca9fb0b4e5268a26755a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D4C 9808 bytes