Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6011de5e98f3da46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 05:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e7d7086445b8e489395ef0d6ac22d1a SHA-1: 0f0f397f290175d46824bdedf806efc4fe8d9eff SHA-256: 6011de5e98f3da4627f998ccb82de85b8a0075d2ab81187187558e4762ed6728
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding a large number of external URLs, many of which point to other PDF files. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=factoring+polynomials+test+answers', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content, potentially via spearphishing attachments.

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=factoring+polynomials+test+answers
    • http://files.eldeststudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637104/norufa.pdf
    • http://files.steadfaststeeds.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406449/4966789.pdf
    • http://files.pbarcade.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/6405236.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7192/1571/files/gegofizajelasenegikaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/28105612008.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9403/9975/files/elementary_analysis_solution_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5154/7800/files/mozeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9571/files/lukipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5857/7046/files/72376703515.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6372/9557/files/wrong_turn_tamil_dubbed_tamilrockers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6041/0021/files/44246567795.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5817/5906/files/zozog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/adhurs_telugu_hd_video_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7613/0718/files/42267864521.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4976/3494/files/14954204808.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_off00004cf5.bin
170a2886ce3d213be39e30fb8a9d52544f91789f7f06193ead395b728150d5ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CF5 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f59.bin
cc0dadea342db0cf3e4dd3892a9de5640e6a85cc885507286de0ce9878046d3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F59 13440 bytes