Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61704afe7bd971c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:42:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7947e1e461340f613fbf9de3211d8ea1 SHA-1: 759e8bb34c541f3f023d508f3fcb827b51bd6ef7 SHA-256: 61704afe7bd971c8868f12a06c8974db2049f244719f28caf7fb3cdf6708fc7b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a redirector link to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dividing+fractions+worksheets+5th+grade', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, with the primary malicious link being the most concerning.

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=dividing+fractions+worksheets+5th+grade
    • http://files.queenbandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453543/1d0a14ee335.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7764/8027/files/test_your_english_vocabulary_in_use_advanced_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1239/9009/files/fopexinawukifakix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lonuxifipepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62856854762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2060/5848/files/mahalakshmi_calendar_2020_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3463/2607/files/fuxawulamuxixopufipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1104/7575/files/gofisijabukikafom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8120/2854/files/1550782023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9371/2286/files/19581212688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1532/3291/files/engineering_drawing_basics_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8691/3431/files/mafebuzawivifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7714/8571/files/git_diff_between_branches.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_off000064e1.bin
0df25f48a6b414071b5bbeaf0bf3afea05ec4834a02b191066a34f8815c58433
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64E1 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077fc.bin
f78d640ec51e09fa526359d9546cf0bfec29c443c85cc73243aeb98116a12bcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77FC 9920 bytes