Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8244fa17f6d67bf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:43:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9cf08e5df19fde39bd2ab5987f9bfbb SHA-1: b05b7c1732f99bdfb90a4095fdbdbbe3efa071e4 SHA-256: 8244fa17f6d67bf3f04c6123128447906733fa8a30ec90e46e0661f4e28e6972
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bring+up+the+bodies+pdf', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, potentially to distribute further malicious content or to obscure the true origin of the malicious redirect.

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=bring+up+the+bodies+pdf
    • http://files.travelling4kids.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740614/de980567acf79e9.pdf
    • http://files.gertrudepress.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776489/e047b87.pdf
    • http://files.northwoodsgourmetgirl.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682040/zosev.pdf
    • http://files.lenasboutiqueofsweets.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/2825122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4016/7320/files/17836854742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4897/files/21561415095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9726/8128/files/94443646509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0212/5733/files/55649285769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89377355024.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/93861148098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2472/files/21808480917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0985/8984/files/16119075447.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5335/0055/files/sobuvulepubevoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4021/9034/files/zukelopobuzivixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/doxazewewijetusom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6238/6079/files/magic_training_guide_rs3.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_off00007967.bin
bc77c0d44e1c7eec9a62f08e1f9f1aa29f1d8d80ae64c224e90e7698980413ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7967 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b3e.bin
58715fc74681211434f77fa00847bf011bc96efe1fa66f2986dcad8163f0c338
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B3E 10632 bytes