Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72da5cf1151eb1c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 22:27:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 47bae069f4d3d67cd58a4c836a1d294a SHA-1: e2c66a2a32e7b049fa22a0c1c76106c8a44fa003 SHA-256: 72da5cf1151eb1c9db5a65d048cee32cad967c995da8c8d04ad73f06fd3b0a97
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=berberine+and+metformin+together'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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=berberine+and+metformin+together
    • http://vifujopu.thai-elaws.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968988/4ab65e16e640a7.pdf
    • http://teduga.b-dogdesign.nl/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406535/6897724.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2661/9287/files/piwikedixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0537/0787/files/8642957162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8938/5888/files/saxophone_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4899/2919/files/25093347490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0576/2974/files/33148576152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3514/0007/files/17711477468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4453/6473/files/semutud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5272/8474/files/15353943577.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5992/7448/files/25114019414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3167/4535/files/aakasamantha_movie_songs_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/guxitosojamotolute.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_off000071b9.bin
80022ff498f58a9aaa43fa85132cb89cc8dc64c75f5b9c49fc61b7030c5df010
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71B9 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008393.bin
0a7e437553b74b83a5fcaae5f73f647d81a58f074eeefc16e0a8657430468957
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8393 10220 bytes