Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 619eafaa3ca67525…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 06:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1da633eb4d566032739e49304f93b978 SHA-1: 1730261cafe8672231655737b7666f484afebbf1 SHA-256: 619eafaa3ca67525f8c6db9719222346dde207f13aad9d7af7450083d6b7cc8a
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=writing+prompts+for+first+grade+worksheets'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and a 'download button' lure suggests an attempt to trick the user into navigating to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=writing+prompts+for+first+grade+worksheets
    • http://files.candretta.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776358/615a0d51a590a74.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1378/2179/files/bmw_m3_2018_manual_transmission.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4155/3575/files/888447623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6489/3345/files/jugonutunewevenezapomun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9468/8412/files/lipigis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5222/6974/files/african_movies_for_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9105/9097/files/26908773801.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5393/2966/files/jiwure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/wumobavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2526/7877/files/bebukewejemimapamelizop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2100/9053/files/65356095259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/cma_practice_test.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_off00005cf1.bin
445e003b50832f5cac5dcdc2643fee0847b985f996faf328c32f4ce455e5e6bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CF1 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe4.bin
13ec829c979841190d0ce8d0ba8b4bb87fefd7f6744c871a89d22ba7df5b972a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE4 9996 bytes