Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 774f05fae288f9cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9dd7fea4a1ebc3196fd414a80baeaf4a SHA-1: 8b6aca5f2f9a2db706c92c15e2c0c1aa3fef4ddf SHA-256: 774f05fae288f9cc525be3a03561cafa886037602b0a08846a19bb0a78c2fbf2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=coniugazione+del+verbo+cantare+in+forma+passiva`. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and other links, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external sites.

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=coniugazione+del+verbo+cantare+in+forma+passiva
    • http://jixalimun.berkshireartsacademy.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969336/2325771.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5788/8936/files/52222866442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3455/0177/files/list_of_worksheet_events_excel_vba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/1259/8423/files/aratinga_canicularis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/70278744099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/wododasirodema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6990/2743/files/moment_of_inertia_of_solid_cylinder.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/98629167596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7205/2643/files/xumojarux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8573/files/gisosunikawel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4586/3067/files/88267086199.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7792/7072/files/46711244105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7299/8815/files/batman_joker_comics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0178/1158/files/kitusu.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_off00004920.bin
6931c55e3a9efca2b1ec64dadf7068d69c211b0821580940c1acf8fd3359dd16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4920 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c3c.bin
f845d9cc288c77b6e38f2767874e8c242201f55ba6dddb286a29c781dccbbc69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C3C 10424 bytes