Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f02893136648c22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 19:13:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9a98e6a3941424c724c0e8c30ae02624 SHA-1: 0930a27943d62057f23578366cbef157e7fdb2ee SHA-256: 7f02893136648c22e3f95320da08ba7f3d511b4677e0de7ceff8ac82cb5718c8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are SEO-optimized to appear as legitimate search results. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=classical+mechanics+john+taylor+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to malicious sites by masquerading as a search result for a PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=classical+mechanics+john+taylor+pdf
    • http://files.amandamelissa.co/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874524/dudizoputovovud-gugubifufetebet.pdf
    • http://files.dimotra.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398475/wedimazabewidef.pdf
    • http://files.kvbfrancedesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775730/3845915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9423/5553/files/27827436308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2132/files/69574763235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3332/9817/files/28384599589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8767/6063/files/janojifekomepuxebajoke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2896/2715/files/jafuwesefivapaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/gutirudosene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0367/4785/files/feziwogatawowif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7656/4630/files/92206608649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7994/9733/files/1808169311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8521/files/danexovunaredogilofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8306/2678/files/fimujo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00009e7a.bin
8fc2170ca93a23bca8df713556a7a3e61a6fbb1b95b12732f8bef7a604620e35
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9E7A 21796 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off000067ea.bin
adcafe83303ad7decd6390071d9a2e8112fd20a8ecdc4af39a713cdcc30cbdc0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67EA 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a68.bin
f2f8c9cb6138c1c30002938ba45f8d17c5ea75f1c0daa661c1173e3f209ffc2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A68 10508 bytes