Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c938684faa2c81a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-07-24 16:39:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 48ffaac483b3bd4b2b28fa0fccf9acfc SHA-1: 6c461f7b17e2e8312c759a5031a1dc00eb74dbe3 SHA-256: 5c938684faa2c81a0344c66c75b41b3d148add6305bf4bd67772de2ca132f127
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious link identified, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=instrumentation+engineer+interview+questions+and+answers, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=instrumentation+engineer+interview+questions+and+answers
    • http://files.njsaferatios.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856435/jovupufotonidowun.pdf
    • http://files.portaldrivertraining.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/9326625.pdf
    • http://files.ppgaacaernarfon.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775413/gonavaxiw.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/zutexaxuzezasomo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4535/5682/files/zapapiwuvuvurusinis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7792/5019/files/sitenido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0577/9863/files/kanotanedanajamibaput.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3756/4823/files/xozewonodorukisutarolefut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6337/7048/files/41617638611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16779745642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85286147205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0161/8327/files/maxuzojimike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3097/9495/files/jujefanosafuji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1650/files/difuxek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/52929841292.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/50558217757.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_off00008bfc.bin
9fa9ecdcfc78c6d454d77d0658670ca800e93f1bad6403d98a135be7a1aadb0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BFC 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009d9b.bin
afb739d7672a12b2814e5fc18f33106ce9bfe371030fdca2442a286c68dfa018
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D9B 10228 bytes