Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 712215297a8746ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 16:22:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6b7e9b431a04894767408420f76e9655 SHA-1: 10cbbbf22bd7465987a00d1b7d88676e782341c2 SHA-256: 712215297a8746ad73c2d73594cfad0f20b48af645905ad3de6162a6cd33c93c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, likely as part of an SEO link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for 'animal behavior worksheet pdf'.

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=animal+behavior+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.wolfemountain.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636978/fufitosavivodu-lajugigise.pdf
    • http://files.parkingguidance.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739298/9390cf0.pdf
    • http://files.hosannadance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380547/6792064.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0697/6422/files/certified_specialist_of_wine_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5448/1058/files/52182153337.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4872/9766/files/assassin_s_creed_black_flag_trainer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6302/4542/files/16223384719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8721/6293/files/sibunosuruvijulazukan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8478/3509/files/buxetipugoxotebogibaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0936/7454/files/the_sum_of_its_parts_quote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4466/files/61678701297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4758/1856/files/petarerasenofatizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8648/7455/files/79292528629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5877/files/64556800776.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_off00006640.bin
13b6e2ba0f708e73c84887cb123f1ad523285cd6af4188ff9b7d85bbcbcb0395
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6640 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000793f.bin
8db20119819363113a1fb678730caa7838a7ad9e20748755da5a4d721939954d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x793F 10264 bytes