Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63be3641ae5f570b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 07:37:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a655fbda1fe0d64c36d59ad15628efcc SHA-1: 5367b3f813f81958e83ce3a6fcef19b57a9c01a1 SHA-256: 63be3641ae5f570b871116e7ee92916489f32f21415266f883b5e17f1080accb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to external content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent, likely to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=adding+mixed+fractions+free+worksheets
    • http://bufovuw.loyalseven.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454065/03672.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7262/files/nowekewuviginoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5788/2022/files/gb_whatsapp_new_version_2019_march.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6812/9431/files/11903307074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5387/5357/files/ghatna_chakra_polity_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/5295/1704/files/finite_automata_in_theory_of_computation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71409998288.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6334/4294/files/manumawewalomusitedogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3216/7068/files/jiwugot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4285/6345/files/60418988751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7777/1162/files/mafivodezuso.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006570.bin
c38f3c8af2f1ea10409cc862df6d30cd3668b1f2922b5360c1652ecb3173512b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6570 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077ad.bin
fa84ef502bf3f6fa1eeb17952dbc610415eb820aa198e580c2cb2a2c34849010
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77AD 10456 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009b52.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B52 4324 bytes