Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68d303ff41680f6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 11:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3831d29d8ebbd71fd2321a136bfb4b8 SHA-1: d9b18734216dc19649c04f609b5c8fb720112f57 SHA-256: 68d303ff41680f6d757d4c4b5295bda1004ec8c176baed78e7f4b937c96be153
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=av+malformation+gi`. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, embedding numerous external PDF links, with the first identified as `https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6756/3429/files/canterbury_tales_urdu_translation.pdf`. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. These indicators suggest the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious sites or a network of linked content.

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=av+malformation+gi
    • http://jorisovi.ragsandrust.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/bunurabuz.pdf
    • http://tivuteku.blackbeltacademyfortpayne.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871921/getidanun_defigufipomado_kefelevojusiw.pdf
    • http://fekiwonup.craftdrones.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/gerimudilizo-selefobosovo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6756/3429/files/canterbury_tales_urdu_translation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4754/2175/files/jipabilifinuluzedenawum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4729/6922/files/17368036730.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5165/6102/files/wejovezolelot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/basugogigarerebid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7289/6672/files/foduwemapipisuratolizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0642/5249/files/sugobapim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1685/1356/files/kibelubagikazuwalul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7605/0330/files/tinkers_construct_guide_1._12._2.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_off000069fa.bin
c2eca39d43b31fdc39beac3af51574f0cbad8a0d6965be0894bedc4a878e9bcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69FA 4956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ac7.bin
6ffeeaf02df664138556dc87a892ef7729b597c0d2232571de0172eda502cf0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AC7 10308 bytes