Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8353849ce0296446…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-28 12:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 49cec2bf1d4cee0abd1dca08b9287536 SHA-1: ff991b4c3d4762703d50c01fdc06fb3be35acbca SHA-256: 8353849ce0296446bb19f611ac4647c917c8507fc8c5c7cf05424f9717d2bdd3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Og word family worksheets for kinder' and includes numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to attract victims. The presence of a malicious redirector and the link farm structure indicate an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=og+word+family+worksheets+for+kinder
    • http://files.dimitraxidous.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454696/tepodem.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0456/5244/3303/files/xuregoxilaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5369/5647/files/puluwofozug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8024/5657/files/mivobus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/5421/8646/files/83991423289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4964/7261/files/3317161375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0506/6907/files/fabufarixodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0881/8333/files/27281491474.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6690/1148/files/83288516429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2870/9539/files/97626673197.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004294.bin
c6440b486c320d9cb6e09088d8793f727dd69959fa4e90ce42c2d26d45c89d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4294 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000054d6.bin
d7da1158c3c079f6d844e9f5e241e9dd02aebb7ac4174f7c9b1547f662a6ef3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54D6 9732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000761e.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x761E 4324 bytes