Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d37a14a8ea247ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 16:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b610b142835ecfae53d64961bd8f2c3c SHA-1: 1014b905e66b032f6cfb8c78fac6a490f4e4f560 SHA-256: 5d37a14a8ea247ee6bcf0b14933bbc22b69d93ba33c0b1f6ecfdd189eeb01793
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cutting+edge+advanced+3rd+edition+pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and other Shopify URLs, likely intended to appear as legitimate document links.

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=cutting+edge+advanced+3rd+edition+pdf
    • http://files.alone-together.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681625/9016287.pdf
    • http://files.bouncyparadeboxers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/tijomovexak_dulekav_lupajegazem.pdf
    • http://files.citytaper.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710795/mokonimubiresi_nawur_loxinonuxur.pdf
    • http://files.pamelabowers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/kutejuwolozelozosuz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9689/7704/files/luxiji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4861/files/memifumijavibafavufexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4968/0028/files/legubolowowimibekile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejukimuvili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7230/5817/files/wifeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7650/files/38594430948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7352/3112/files/behavioral_economics_introduction.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8187/5104/files/41703102824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9857/8848/files/deteriguneboxonobojife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3127/2351/files/xewovowunegazir.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_off00005c18.bin
f905eecd00f02bb9781e77fc508f12aa8f0326e6cfef25567963aa1ed3263f1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C18 5244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e0b.bin
388bbbd239d9cd11fec08345654b3c55f6868296fb4208c39116dad7bed81e0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E0B 10516 bytes