Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 700d72e9168f0491…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 13:42:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f06e11da5e5650f9f57c29e6bfadb7f4 SHA-1: 68aada4a69c065724cc41a3ba82d1f8b0e0f3ec8 SHA-256: 700d72e9168f0491a1d3824f95ac365627ea4b6e9baca345006c442af81780f7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent URL, "https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=unfallbericht+schreiben+%25C3%25BCbungen+pdf", is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to search queries, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=unfallbericht+schreiben+%25C3%25BCbungen+pdf
    • http://files.maximevaporator.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070918/8872208.pdf
    • http://files.seraphimschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813458/1740859.pdf
    • http://files.jamesmatthewwilson.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637057/d1e23bb.pdf
    • http://files.asnyderweb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453657/bowerigu_navekomuno_bixinebodesinap_lifosumawudasok.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7763/2149/files/68970972229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4930/3720/files/96304221492.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2508/9191/files/1133912429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4338/9597/files/59992084262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6457/files/blues_music_history.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/fipeker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3550/9415/files/80621109921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/voxetevew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7433/0517/files/vulaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8396/4324/files/penabebifibiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mefopevepal.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_off000061d7.bin
440a444c746c4a49378989ea7e37c6a387fb8437f1f61b6437ad62399416ab5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61D7 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074df.bin
c737c3f1d515b334ec77f914748f71e55b7bb559bef0d59d1146a1fce671f824
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74DF 11172 bytes