Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65914e8d12dbcbb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:46:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 59a130bbd15e64fe83b8162c686b4a10 SHA-1: bfad03c4fbdb9e2fa79e38d9b089920b535d6802 SHA-256: 65914e8d12dbcbb7adb4f4678ce5d4e27083c2d95f85e5b79b60721005d93707
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=accounting+definition+book+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious URL and benign Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=accounting+definition+book+pdf
    • http://files.centralkansascorvetteassociation.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637853/b93fc8b7.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8413/6086/files/70483634809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2564/files/pt_serif_pro_caption_font_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6423/files/povapefofokogidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/16921690301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9779/2420/files/24868593499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0618/8955/files/bosifofolut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3649/1431/files/fanimuwewugolisobaseseseb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8543/6830/files/renewable_energy_sources_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3042/files/77108191234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6567/1833/files/gadilunolapol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4186/5375/files/aprender_espaol_para_nios_extranjeros.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_off00004a73.bin
73cf6c4e36b6be1b2841d350c884d7059a0ee832db9689f2435f4965e4bc68e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A73 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b8a.bin
0246fbb72fa20041b711cff63f19b3de01912c94583d4f0bfaee41a11e07b47d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B8A 9744 bytes