Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 597fd4875da74f2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 19:23:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 307a5893242e9e6010ee06279f1e14de SHA-1: ee494d42c9f6875aed20097fd75a8d8bedf7ffa1 SHA-256: 597fd4875da74f2e8f161c5b4a54ca4aa90119f7282d71c7853eb91927850ac7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=free+automotive+repair+manuals+pdf'. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click the malicious link under the guise of free automotive repair manuals.

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=free+automotive+repair+manuals+pdf
    • http://files.katesmathlessons.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/20e70fae4ea1.pdf
    • http://gamub.ravenwolfjackrussells.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858540/podiwojevitaxur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6326/0822/files/foxola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0702/5060/files/aneurisma_aorto_abdominal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8220/files/kutitu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5538/0645/files/filetomakezapokugokovof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2283/4071/files/bupivilubetufiliduzo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6200/1825/files/97867370565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2560/3488/files/thinking_in_java_download_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/tepake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9721/1551/files/gatabek.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_off0000a17b.bin
199e9cda5af38451760ed50c0d7aa61159d0651589c8546a58f764b7844abd09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA17B 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b31a.bin
ba84dcd3b314230d20673e837ef30ddedd6f0ddb42b17c6662bac26da713d43e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB31A 15548 bytes