Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89ac96e399bace5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d3f49c64ebf5d3909d4938d496c1a03 SHA-1: 14fddc19ff11f8325489b624c51283abff8dab08 SHA-256: 89ac96e399bace5fe18d2f4fa366d0a1e3e036eb08e97766e8b7d6c9db415c33
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector and another for a PDF link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=prism+sound+orpheus`, which is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. The extensive use of Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation, potentially to boost the ranking of malicious sites.

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=prism+sound+orpheus
    • http://metovijox.fenianfear.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740708/tinogotasebodofusij.pdf
    • http://zazoj.paintandwinealbuquerque.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437615/4653384.pdf
    • http://nujixan.leggolf.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412290/5b6e2da7df8399f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1266/9089/files/gejotufudufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9770/1032/files/57205440566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8876/5337/files/steam_api._dll_for_pes_2015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9027/9574/files/list_of_chemistry_formulas_class_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9128/7461/files/29370600320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0955/5107/files/72573539766.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3159/2102/files/zesilibuzepuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6222/2232/files/nolegipewubufejipuzotuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1505/3213/files/ayutthaya_tourist_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4124/3814/files/73123624374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4292/5726/files/amazing_grace_violin_music_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0357/5454/files/20711127192.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_off00006ec2.bin
ca38e4d1606f1c9408d30d30a1f308a80e1adda79bc480e039671849b25a6488
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EC2 4960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f6b.bin
e6c5d30bdd509ed524151303f5879f1c4cd9f7613dace1b52025facd29577d86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F6B 9888 bytes