Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ef3c254ef09c3ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:28:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: af9a611d1b9e4cb466fa8cf6d8c30a81 SHA-1: 35c05f60df84a382a165726e71425fc8d0e12181 SHA-256: 8ef3c254ef09c3aca22c9de12260707e26f0c9b5c48f77c84e9cc14bde3ff133
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The embedded URLs, including the primary redirector 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kyle+gibson+fangraphs', suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=kyle+gibson+fangraphs
    • http://files.evamargaretbrown.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775753/pokovodi.pdf
    • http://files.rijanjewelryexclusive.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776757/a3c586.pdf
    • http://files.theyogaconnectionstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775735/7162043.pdf
    • http://files.drvegetableinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874063/pasefozunogi.pdf
    • http://files.samanthastewartofficial.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/bd35e8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8456/2086/files/2163118488.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8075/3058/files/zivalidakitome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1221/1359/files/86529067820.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/55902632508.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0577/9863/files/xivok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6513/0658/files/jupasiligo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/90482272243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/70366047338.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4868/9050/files/guputiwekolevosapokam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0079/9140/files/sifitaroxowubimolokug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0416/6297/files/gijupopinarerobilego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6246/8514/files/vutudojefozijiwimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2131/1898/files/27554014642.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_off00006a46.bin
eeb3aebe2a98e2a209820ddeb1d47ab8f751ce14ff54086eff331af594c4987c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A46 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c9d.bin
c6d9695e44de902ea1ab21dbc0b290b153d6a44bec7f7255e44576c107d92f6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C9D 10288 bytes