Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 610e50e134c01eeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:26:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd512ba58ccd57049a7bd2b01643e8c5 SHA-1: b18bf2bfd4b4576ead872a42244ff456fc1692b9 SHA-256: 610e50e134c01eeb09beab8361755ef7eb55d9ad4c7aa2dc4d401852aad10717
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=grim+stroke+hero+guide'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded links and redirector suggest an attempt to lead the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=grim+stroke+hero+guide
    • http://files.dakeynediscengine.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695734/buvoradipipeko_vinutikixibases_xipugofomawezo_sozikove.pdf
    • http://files.blackberrycreek.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969645/822703.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6254/9910/files/ancient_history_books_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0327/3628/files/29892589186.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8590/3525/files/81289655613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3440/files/pipijerase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1651/files/vupabilokinudejufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7093/8533/files/23481800161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2702/9400/files/swing_power_generators.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6090/files/72873846066.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4518/0824/files/3266014175.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_off00006a75.bin
8e6bc6c69d39c2804401b30800c16828ada98da5f2aa75831da6869f222a8a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A75 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba7.bin
41eed3b15b2de58d7c1c59deae50ae5761f1116893e268ca9b891f0cdb0d884c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA7 9852 bytes