Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78ae51353ea7331c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74243064f8834db2013b0ae9cc4e742e SHA-1: 82caa80915ec0718b54fa600bec0513c599a6c5e SHA-256: 78ae51353ea7331c7a9de382f839919460eb1c4f0240a59f05e87991ea14f285
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=advanced+excel+test+questions+and+answers+xls`. The document body also contains this URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure to click through potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=advanced+excel+test+questions+and+answers+xls
    • http://files.sopoochtraining.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/kawivibugakovuj.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8253/0472/files/pexuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8580/0358/files/nubime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/2593/5005/files/xeworojirepidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7996/6628/files/jesezironexovupamogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5651/9576/files/90932024195.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2647/files/zifadefetugekisejonufasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8760/9497/files/lincoln_ls_repair_manual.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007ed8.bin
e645431aa0e5cb41de9691a913931b3529f1eee0bf3a113c8581ec25dd2bd3f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ED8 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000907b.bin
8bfcdd3f6f7dbfaa5ff5e2ce510fa13d83d2aa51521456e25835679b4dc748f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x907B 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b532.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB532 4324 bytes