Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5be8cd358f9ea8e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:34:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eec1af91a405e7c350e0054333838f44 SHA-1: 8db3d2ba58f02303fadb2d5c6af05e158e55d633 SHA-256: 5be8cd358f9ea8e6dee5fe59b8d5a621307de62bce5a2fdb134587fb17e3f67c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a "dictionary worksheet pdf" and includes the malicious URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute 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=using+dictionary+worksheet+pdf
    • http://runovib.somosescritores.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741555/xirodilaxevetiw_susap_bejuzobewifux.pdf
    • http://files.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606874/nebenamibuparobu.pdf
    • http://files.monticellosearch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382346/dipawumufi_badipefed_bowuwoziguwo.pdf
    • http://files.midnightsjourney.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406140/f65009e8.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1221/1359/files/31424747415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2154/1271/files/78050150814.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1690/4104/files/98963820468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3685/1874/files/78080046495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2791/files/75069143311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7739/4847/files/serewedavodulalak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1357/0709/files/94662101493.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3475/files/beginner_lead_guitar_lessons.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5310/4790/files/77412062241.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5920/7582/files/harley_touring_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5306/2043/files/52341720724.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_off00006151.bin
01870292c62930c9d88196e0bb365382232a8d0f9382d128c50510d18dbb14b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6151 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000749c.bin
494c0e4aafd4766714ab26e93c14d266f8571efb2137dd7c8b49688578ac2990
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x749C 10412 bytes