Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7db0b1be9cba1230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:15:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7847fa0b2d37df82fbaaba77ace16d0 SHA-1: 43d1fae8eb06af9a65cd0f2d962cf51d4f270aa7 SHA-256: 7db0b1be9cba1230add3b24570b5bd1e645b43c0630ec598a5fda40c6c57892e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=difference+between+aliphatic+and+aromatic+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure related to a technical topic to encourage clicks.

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=difference+between+aliphatic+and+aromatic+pdf
    • http://files.danjapolitis.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857527/c7d3a1d54439.pdf
    • http://files.belizeeduventure.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969322/719879.pdf
    • http://files.midsouthcov.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776381/3122a93a1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0427/files/matplot_multiple_images.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1340/5850/files/miwadepixesodeverepiretu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7503/4520/files/29633238554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1626/3592/files/38935736547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6143/5813/files/13242116922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9277/8901/files/14982565584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2073/0011/files/87642311646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8496/files/pibasedazonitiluri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2566/0066/files/vilosel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/75815848510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0453/4692/files/buxisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5323/4841/files/83885950000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2289/8584/files/zotonom.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_off000055aa.bin
c4cfe2442c7ecb27bf7fc548da8d388edce330e9378e2c995af06efefaace381
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55AA 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000681e.bin
6f245024a6c12f5d2b0ffc7c988286f32a4c71015391aa0ac0a0296f961df790
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x681E 10064 bytes