Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 612c579cffaf8356…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2020-07-27 06:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c54690da0166962ffced408574fe344 SHA-1: e80f6d892d82006e4d4a3cd8aa495c6af772234f SHA-256: 612c579cffaf8356843d5a8ae2efe844a27489029f61152964a387408b5d9755
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'emotional intelligence questionnaire' and 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site.

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=emotional+intelligence+questionnaire+for+students+pdf
    • http://files.growwithmehomechildcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406744/finigan_xaputovatixabi_fiwexo.pdf
    • http://files.mscureenigmas.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383998/jijamojagijatuk.pdf
    • http://files.angelsofawareness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398288/bomosagudal-lesila-temimixog.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4206/9918/files/73954534083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2691/files/povovilugutexedav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7680/5018/files/48653234742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4826/files/gaxabizefinodedezazatexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8276/0870/files/nukivufibupejuwuwipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9340/2534/files/3331100820.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1280/8091/files/tekopunuxunisumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81858120772.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/jajovilijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9176/files/8386301040.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_off0000d5ee.bin
cf88f4f1c2a6f0470b0516320a6a9029d114a081849832ec262dc74ade521e11
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5EE 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e84b.bin
576085113b350d306a6c4c859523bea557a50e541fa6a335ca07afdbcf417d54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84B 12028 bytes