Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a7ac2e89e161606…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 16:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5af1130278461bee4b4016d68c05af9 SHA-1: 3902df5b9beb6f8a434208dd6073d8850d8832c3 SHA-256: 7a7ac2e89e161606165f89c924930d15b9a4d6fbca0279c4249bb5f216273119
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=anthropology+optional+upsc+books+pdf`. The document body also contains numerous links to external PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

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=anthropology+optional+upsc+books+pdf
    • http://files.6thstagnesscoutinggroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969659/38d6b527.pdf
    • http://files.2wolvesinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383760/tataza.pdf
    • http://files.xtabentum.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070204/546590.pdf
    • http://files.100womenwhocarenorthsuburbanchicago.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164185/9517547.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7453/5067/files/eq2_crypt_of_betrayal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3458/files/19762507803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4715/7914/files/29952515010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7565/6094/files/lolin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5168/7848/files/95693050835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5746/3971/files/7353003231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8905/8206/files/54417293838.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5515/3303/files/52776845926.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4389/8019/files/kiruxovufizajepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2258/9853/files/lamoganitav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8736/2216/files/59210079095.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_off00006695.bin
ac3fa7f431c8fdbb0300bb4ec996f21a73054ccf3a28ffa1c8b0af4f772da40f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6695 5712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a0d.bin
8cca76e76a8909755987c664072963629e04d6ee0adf280238b9993dd9c1dcba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A0D 10004 bytes