Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6102950e6f17270e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7359f7e96159f6efa87ae1e5630cec43 SHA-1: dcc845ecdf18fab8daa71889ab927ae7c96be143 SHA-256: 6102950e6f17270e167159fc813788f42865fa54734f8ebcf6e8b84ebcef971b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=math+gmat+strategy+guides+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body itself contains obfuscated text and URLs, further indicating a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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=math+gmat+strategy+guides+pdf
    • http://files.wellsville-creative-arts-center.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437530/5404582.pdf
    • http://files.mrlucero.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453097/kituferosaka-pekuvivalu-lukijerupep.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1131/7658/files/wedefiwawedit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7300/2902/files/regelegolatenokenega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2621/1238/files/matenenatavufagetarexumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5098/2805/files/bio_data_format_hd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/xanepamalupowomurafer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9122/1923/files/nimexaselixarira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1538/9855/files/dedelasudewonive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5528/4378/files/homologous_series_of_alkanes.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_off00005dc7.bin
6a9675325c25673d7356c7dca7df1a5ad9fb08e5096b955220c3d9d160a8f5f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DC7 5532 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007087.bin
8f3e4a846be312c598b6d98196797fb9dbb2fac1f79ded836d8ad616cbf29f1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7087 11700 bytes