Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 774c38905ad65dcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-27 14:05:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9456c693e74c96654778809e7f464432 SHA-1: 077da9134cadb601584694aa371b9f511571bba9 SHA-256: 774c38905ad65dccc7b25ef3ffc0e8ac4042af6881eade62f9b9db2423ca2d32
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=50+states+song+lyrics', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain similar URLs, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking malicious links. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious 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=50+states+song+lyrics
    • http://files.pvtennisclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710689/nuvumidobune.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9733/3668/files/77435003119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/8661/1357/files/original_marksheet_up_board_2013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6295/9006/files/81154385599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6988/8920/files/4598269154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1207/7206/files/.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6793/0789/files/b._sc_2nd_year_maths_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4218/4095/files/luwusutomogep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6457/2569/files/15102665230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8029/4298/files/pubatorof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2493/0200/files/ak_jain_physiology_google_drive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8062/3015/files/21488482557.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_off00005e4b.bin
102acd9de0331b22dddb185b418afd69e130a9ae321a530c83f245a2a6a6a72f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E4B 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007028.bin
5233cd4e10336e8cc119805f2488dca96dd4b6574448eed11311932962d5dc29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7028 11932 bytes