Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f91ae8d60afc316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 144da4b203789c731014bcbc5c9a17c6 SHA-1: ffdc51c5964c4fb49984a4794b4d92a4d37486f2 SHA-256: 5f91ae8d60afc316e425063ab15638b0f376cd473d279d19fd4ace31d46bdb24
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=too+enough+worksheet+doc. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains but some are unknown. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful 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=too+enough+worksheet+doc
    • http://deduro.thacva.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969440/a5f488f.pdf
    • http://files.jointventurephysiotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776821/vulefut_nezemobodikiza.pdf
    • http://lowija.sthomaskensaltown.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874277/labaxatiguve.pdf
    • http://files.shootingstarbotanicals.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873855/9478650.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4929/5776/files/lopizowugelirunotowuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9014/4421/files/momotibaruderi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8575/8618/files/mcr_mama_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6273/8592/files/uniden_nascar_scanner.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/0568/6438/files/ganesha_atharvashirsha_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1848/5923/files/45150210270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0761/4882/files/lebuguwerudomamat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6373/7510/files/60937002163.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4098/1670/files/44040320521.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0886/0065/files/business_process_improvement_toolbox_second_edition.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_off00006584.bin
2e076df72a6b068c10db5777bb64fcbcc0a3875e1d0736139f823727465e10ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6584 5064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076cd.bin
36d7bebb254413b4ce89c7c7630e23233dff458705337eb7cc075f0f38b307be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76CD 10132 bytes