Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b0ddc0189e21165…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:07:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a2d184072cca96938a9f5444315599ed SHA-1: 389cd245a0c8e84ec58d08c26d12daf462b9e7af SHA-256: 5b0ddc0189e211650179b8275b55a59eaffaad371a662421c3a78c67af78bd10
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are designed to appear as legitimate PDF documents hosted on Shopify. However, analysis reveals that one of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=que+significa+aneurisma+pdf', redirects to known malicious infrastructure. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=que+significa+aneurisma+pdf
    • http://files.musictypographer.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070113/dopudeso-lamuxexazabafab-nalabodunubi.pdf
    • http://files.inspiringwellnessandlearning.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/e1a6b1a650c54.pdf
    • http://files.menorthwest.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856433/7451308.pdf
    • http://files.lifestarbrokerage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/weduwemosogizulapudi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7692/7141/files/lokimeguge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4522/2550/files/all_out_war_brexit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4607/5542/files/tu_falta_de_querer_letra.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7075/7795/files/college_acceptance_letter_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9102/4280/files/pinovanovesulewezawutal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8171/2287/files/gangguan_metabolisme_protein.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1087/4777/files/zegofikedalatumudisate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3293/9429/files/crowdfunding_que_es.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kovutuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9529/4109/files/articles_of_confederation_vs_constitution.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005bbc.bin
3ba278f4101193cdeb25669273e9a2bca6d3b1db145bf47ea6bd8b56b17aea62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BBC 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e5f.bin
708db2d64ef9a301160e6bbe7d0c6fbc15c925ffa06d7fdd349db263d27795cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E5F 9092 bytes