Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dc3076582908187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 03:34:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21abe2998296f136880b3fa48df45c47 SHA-1: 5b11be9392b9f97e6b2a7cf50c96de8eff5a6344 SHA-256: 8dc307658290818743e9b17960d19a8af407cead290c58b74824fd4ff57553db
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm or SEO manipulation, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=php+switch+statement', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent, likely to lure users to harmful content or to manipulate search engine rankings.

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=php+switch+statement
    • http://files.sarahschuessler.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/9836607.pdf
    • http://files.danaavant.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775746/3375008.pdf
    • http://files.impassionedyarn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411688/balininowituxa_towaw_wuwebuzus.pdf
    • http://files.omosschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/5962722.pdf
    • http://files.dysfunctionalbmx.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814066/292ed8bba2b1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75904593322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0382/2755/files/kudanumuzas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3781/0075/files/mamubupududowazime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5394/8836/files/53672517598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7287/9782/files/79437059615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2770/9597/files/64206434405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/2538499208.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1128/2843/files/50090131317.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8348/9690/files/dabapimobiwezutexuri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8402/8833/files/bowasurifufavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0687/0183/files/rezuvidujofimenopuke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4513/5260/files/mobugubokakejevarez.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_off0000c26c.bin
f172928346e60f36d8937543818d836fac457e42cec1c27d8b3a959e92ef69f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC26C 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3d9.bin
16af63ce45558e2ef883cf53b9ff4972ea3bc138c04a594e7afb4724584aac2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D9 16328 bytes