Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 667e77ed8991ea4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0cb585c6e2676d2aa2352b9a20438516 SHA-1: 319cbf2e43d119fa2fc95bc6389e943761475100 SHA-256: 667e77ed8991ea4dc6e523cb38a29faf4037fc884c10e8040b3b996ed9ede04a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=introduction+to+entrepreneurship+books+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The overall pattern suggests a phishing attempt disguised as a document download.

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=introduction+to+entrepreneurship+books+pdf
    • http://files.raingirlphotos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437930/782cc0.pdf
    • http://files.lightoftheworldbrigade.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775249/betevanawavogi.pdf
    • http://files.next-mex.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696111/rusowumado-pojisiwola-zamifadedos.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4317/6091/files/abraham_twerski_kitaplar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8413/6086/files/36952353696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2135/2606/files/setagetuvuzanowil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1663/4016/files/42961945730.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13164506765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6012/5080/files/19932973561.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3813/8783/files/aircraft_design_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1747/0101/files/45981353590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3738/2040/files/14204220827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3528/2856/files/vanilla_wow_stockades_quests.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_off0000c66c.bin
3032890bb308650118fcb08dcf4c04f803746280bf91117e939ea0932304aa7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC66C 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7df.bin
414f9bdd4ec2336f7e52a05353b5373af91d52eb94125a581b4e07a340513031
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DF 10356 bytes