Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e8d86ff46166ca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:25:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd959cfdba5e29221be436512b27256d SHA-1: 53329c8c4962c013161d24e449da26ab84d0bbcb SHA-256: 5e8d86ff46166ca63a3abab58b94b321999957c5abd78b753d14dbd945b43008
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=company+financial+analysis+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to financial analysis and the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous benign-looking Shopify links alongside the malicious redirector indicates a sophisticated attempt to mask malicious activity.

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=company+financial+analysis+pdf
    • http://nozigop.haraequine.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437393/vasobegiw_tuluju.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/rebewoloxitiga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1008/8342/files/safari_7._0_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3101/0199/files/11664484356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4539/6386/files/vivupofewefima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/14686370217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8679/1334/files/rutotilivubuzanut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0689/1931/files/physics_of_atoms_and_molecules_bransden_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0839/3369/files/33606375748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8699/3813/files/baricco_libros.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0975/3767/files/44967723121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4819/8556/files/pupetonegasujevudob.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_off000060e1.bin
5f86628ce928bd378f1123a0af2c4397f16fbdca4d8ee426101099885f3e3fd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E1 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000728c.bin
547ea6cb6d613beb37e7b83140633f255b4d041988254f9d7683dd77355b16c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x728C 10032 bytes