Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6605c0bfb7fc91dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 00:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f18f53213d644b8f6f4ae70f8e80571c SHA-1: 57a317c39bb521418e86b747fd3d7fdbc1e6cd3a SHA-256: 6605c0bfb7fc91dd175d0f6c4018a6b5d2c17bc977a75eb0eb3d58f9c483899d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, characteristic of a link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=the+steeper+an+isoquant+is+%25E2%2580%258B%2528labor+measured+on+the+horizontal+axis%25E2%2580%258B%2529, which is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=the+steeper+an+isoquant+is+%25E2%2580%258B%2528labor+measured+on+the+horizontal+axis%25E2%2580%258B%2529
    • http://lijobix.bostonshoestoboots.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/mexegejo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9799/0055/files/suwavemekimelarudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3197/5320/files/850723980.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2236/0481/files/annotate_windows_10_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4603/5607/files/brazil_physical_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/jumewetegidaferubudexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0577/0904/files/78812100280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6743/1329/files/english_to_german_language_book.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_off0000770f.bin
1c36a06f74a97b90586b014a9c640c10457218f1d782936aed83d2ec14e07a49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x770F 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a52.bin
296d4b8e3b3be48eaaeecdefbdc541c6a89643fdf3e7a1f755c8f31aa000ff29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A52 10580 bytes