Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61a2520bbd457e31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 07:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e79f7dc9d5e77bd64dcca6276626dfb0 SHA-1: 78693cbe59e0bbaf5214fa9a47f0638d42f28e5c SHA-256: 61a2520bbd457e31b018802157f291f4195b0279c62aafe04c25c51617ab86ce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a deceptive lure, presenting itself as a crossword puzzle answer to encourage users to click embedded links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=photosynthesis+and+cellular+respiration+crossword+answer', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document also hosts a link farm of other PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links and the deceptive content strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=photosynthesis+and+cellular+respiration+crossword+answer
    • http://dekeze.surreybulldogs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775129/8247258.pdf
    • http://xajexezug.themusictheater.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453206/wowutuv.pdf
    • http://zovepuvu.chesapeakeherbgathering.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874276/d074e3cb2349.pdf
    • http://files.kirsteenmackayconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740293/fe1e27d.pdf
    • http://files.baylanders.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606146/pidodosab-liwize-numimusikididaf.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6629/2389/files/dolegojineludonejawar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5884/0223/files/hong_kong_airport_terminal_1_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9114/9475/files/dorisusudote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5079/3110/files/26465256591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7746/files/libifemuderusubifuxepax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2812/6618/files/meant_to_be_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3685/1874/files/android_studio_google_play_services_are_updating.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_off00005f11.bin
dba9a91a6e58f92c0f914a2b5874957a05748e7e9b03d6f77e5d34e40d615497
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F11 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007147.bin
c39756283220705923dcb222b9fe5cc15793f15b529c39c7ff5a1134875b6da7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7147 10420 bytes