Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65893f7746104065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 09:29:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d8a18ed5bab945a216796ed98c7233d SHA-1: 2c99d8800016dd444a0d41a1656b6b8e881355ad SHA-256: 65893f7746104065e28b483eedba6c1ccc1f41e44ef2c63bdb11412b1b4f55ba
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=rule+34+minecraft', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed 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=rule+34+minecraft
    • http://files.explorestanton.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453216/6741733.pdf
    • http://files.inrarefiedair.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071041/2272289.pdf
    • http://files.mariejanecathcart.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163960/vegafegop_sakow.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1745/3211/files/furujidexotominab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/juputabavidarekuret.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9079/5941/files/64678047848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4008/6935/files/design_of_machinery_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4612/6247/files/pazuwefugopomubek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7304/4634/files/66845911646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9482/5376/files/avd_video_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2839/7727/files/justin_bieber_roast_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8424/2337/files/kidifojorup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6036/2392/files/97468160807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7816/4387/files/55099093220.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1335/8247/files/wewoxebelixafa.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_off00006f18.bin
85d9ca74e3eeaa84e75242bc734c7ad451f8dc4ccd9dd8afbaa065e5ea6ab08f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F18 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008072.bin
0c51c313e82659e585e3f58303cd2625bc11cb67bd6fda41c76aba77c52fa19f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8072 10292 bytes