Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60e3544bdb326eaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6b45af8b63e68e5459b3b4fbbde8eb55 SHA-1: 684ceef4f224197d1daf3121158f6218144c2ec6 SHA-256: 60e3544bdb326eaa2d6f6c636d04fbee69868d1b360185ca1ea1f37ba5ca01c9
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 pointing to external PDF files, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=what+does+a+gm+service+manual+include'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a service manual lure, aligning with the malicious redirector's purpose. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=what+does+a+gm+service+manual+include
    • http://files.ryckrudd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739712/pagumiperi.pdf
    • http://files.ontheslysupport.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/de0bd21379221.pdf
    • http://files.grapesociety.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437322/7399305.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5196/6873/files/78654233660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3363/2661/files/77783624288.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/liluv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/51893664396.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91337380597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73633131036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4376/3862/files/26041986569.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1447/1330/files/69550849579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0081/4998/files/31251468375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/26125065510.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_off0000769e.bin
fd4ff8632c826bc1c93cdc4e0bd6d4b15cbbce38f860d1519124c1fb8931f7d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x769E 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088f9.bin
31985995ff7c66cfe8778372927c71d91e3fedc843e3be37d32eff113941fa47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88F9 10336 bytes