Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c850de51a91e18c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-26 21:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 354ed2b49866c5dc7ccabc5b35b1090a SHA-1: 52395ca7876964af66465b27b5f44f464707f071 SHA-256: 7c850de51a91e18cd964cb64c2f09254c8cb22eab1429855ff9c7e06541dbb58
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=languages+online+french+section+33+answers', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of a large number of links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, indicates an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a seemingly legitimate facade.

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=languages+online+french+section+33+answers
    • http://files.pdjensenartist.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874109/344a87c7b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/world_countries_and_capitals_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8226/0384/files/gray_blue_bed_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5653/6479/files/convert_to_editable_word_iphone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3734/3387/files/english_grammar_exercises_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0131/4454/files/25684995742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4488/7966/files/74292515927.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2638/9912/files/concierto_aranjuez_guitarra.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6360/6437/files/animals_and_their_young_ones_names.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2513/6792/files/fazimuzovubux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1302/0570/files/68127603633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5295/5810/files/sports_vocabulary_esl.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000079dc.bin
6c686890cb78ebc1ab00da23b1f609b6a12d1af6bf2bc3d91014cf477a354669
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79DC 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c19.bin
501ac6c6b9353b07224e1f8b4d2b072b54d590d9e1082c77a51956b86a5dc241
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C19 10128 bytes