Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67732588ade3c532…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 20:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2666278a6b75325bbe11263daf91b12d SHA-1: 1e835feb0aab906660e3e862b62844451b023c18 SHA-256: 67732588ade3c5327e5d5b028d19097245e43762acf6dbec05944ca18b227899
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, masquerading as legitimate documents, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary links, disguised as a historical atlas, redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.ru. This suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=palgrave+atlas+of+byzantine+history+pdf
    • http://gonib.communityconnectionsaz.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776460/jijigo.pdf
    • http://folipagu.threepenny-theatricals.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/8797161.pdf
    • http://files.dawsonparish.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453065/retisuwozim_kekodolipeseri_mifunidakako.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9803/8679/files/critical_analysis_essay_outline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4743/5940/files/world_map_printable_with_country_names.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9926/8003/files/febapinoxipatubekate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1187/2667/files/hiding_from_the_internet_michael_bazzell.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4976/2459/files/fundamentals_of_metal_cutting_and_machine_tools_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2549/7250/files/wabagijeguzevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8660/9573/files/tixibomujokivejinelal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/44055565060.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96672573922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5107/7032/files/the_little_black_boy_download.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_off00005fdf.bin
0f2d62a2c948a678b6397a1e1251e2edba91fa336a9c41e83311d1be64898a89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FDF 5656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007317.bin
4bc1b2b853702ce34fa468bd7bf34d01049dda654e9fe595cbf530958cd8a3e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7317 10180 bytes