Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 708a438f0d3b669b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-26 09:41:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ffe09d5d53b219edf5eca1c6c8d07243 SHA-1: 1ea6d8dbd47c3b4c6640f08d01e5fd8377c56814 SHA-256: 708a438f0d3b669b6a4901473c3b00d8856cd0baf705d68c465d0c604c2058db
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 Shopify domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ejercicios+palabras+simples+compuestas+derivadas+y+parasint%25C3%25A9ticas+pdf`. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself contains garbled text but includes the same malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs.

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=ejercicios+palabras+simples+compuestas+derivadas+y+parasint%25C3%25A9ticas+pdf
    • http://files.fcscommunitycouncil.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437926/7821835.pdf
    • http://files.independentscreativegroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380944/bifexarivigiwo-nimadi.pdf
    • http://files.ardsleydaycamp.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438539/e43869e.pdf
    • http://files.aikidoinstitute.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695746/2487115.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0990/8637/files/certificate_background_template_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8729/7696/files/nawafivalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/entrepreneurship_ncert_book_class_11.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8480/files/mitabuvinodoweruxoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6520/5141/files/fagexupuxosopupixeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4035/9068/files/xunevumuzim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6156/5850/files/55349507769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7197/9172/files/96112655851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0956/4064/files/jowiduputejodebisobafusod.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_off0000740f.bin
cfbbbf5b9ba9461ec16661b29d2577a821a92af3fb69df36833b5388d82768bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740F 5780 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008770.bin
aafeba22d7fb1391c25481373a51f43eac5b6f9f0fdbd087e49d1cd3ab5f9693
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8770 11516 bytes