Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 616456d1a31ab739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 13:47:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a806c01cf4a7afd6f5f944b027a314d SHA-1: fa9a9ecd954a3431275dadc153fe11a20dcd040b SHA-256: 616456d1a31ab7398325d3312771e6539b5b8ecef03c7793ff7a1a3b59ce1a8a
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 a link farm designed to generate SEO traffic. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ielts+simon+speaking+part+1+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=ielts+simon+speaking+part+1+pdf
    • http://files.justksd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/jarojipa-kuwogak.pdf
    • http://files.5thstreetfinancial.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695372/fezalowi_fajukururufo_ratajo_dakagelotifinur.pdf
    • http://files.kerenvishny.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398308/kanipiduruniru_bezexof.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7783/6703/files/brian_head_utah_weather.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4098/7544/files/liradorufulidamavu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8860/1503/files/gegazomuxubidobizaxuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/felelafusojogemixuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2896/3747/files/5286080841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0999/0043/files/582809153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4396/1494/files/tavevisirupisalej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1482/2808/files/prot_paladin_icy_veins.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9546/5892/files/kogojerisizomadenola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5502/1223/files/newofewonukex.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_off00009c5c.bin
5309662af357dc6adb8d5ef714868d5e2d1daec18468ed2db2436d4d26f3b318
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C5C 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aeb4.bin
0baf07ad3cc79d805fd0b3f726164e9bc0cade98268da2c01ef230eae6944a7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEB4 10028 bytes