Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c77a56954b64245…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 06:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d96cb26643eba1dad581a628f37af063 SHA-1: 64924bcfb368b5172bd0043627d53feed25441e4 SHA-256: 8c77a56954b64245f8bcfb31b5481cfb20c395c7b57a7d5d080a21cecd787e01
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an academic document. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=algebra+2+regents+scoring+sheet, is used to redirect the user to further malicious content, likely a phishing page or malware download. The document also hosts a large number of SEO-optimized PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, but the presence of the redirector is the primary threat.

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=algebra+2+regents+scoring+sheet
    • http://files.drcolmoconnor.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813531/tomugamip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/jukawutuledegusetanotoju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3464/7460/files/ccat_sample_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3794/9090/files/26683811227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0469/files/7957294807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7930/2296/files/camera_fv_5_manual_focus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7210/2301/files/alessandra_rampolla_libros_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2516/5470/files/50829152151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7846/7222/files/75270684717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5158/0568/files/83265534520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/couch_to_5k_free_app_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0486/0328/files/lavisagetunakesuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3126/3394/files/subebunatafina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0840/files/fire_fighting_training_questions_and_answers.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_off00007f41.bin
e805e9a6cae85f856e0a62a8156ac0edaa8082020c313c0b2e0c7f41106677b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F41 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000914a.bin
5eec45ad1304b328f874d55be3f084e1d41bd87c556387eaa9d2cbb5bfade854
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x914A 14632 bytes