Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9699497fb94ba44e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 14:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11490b96ab159a4fdc3a934d13273564 SHA-1: e373176d2aedfcadac61a17fcd71be23023ebcf5 SHA-256: 9699497fb94ba44e6cda5b2996c69d75a22b7a14d7e0bcd0cbf30c656916dc41
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=acls+book+pdf'. This indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=acls+book+pdf
    • http://files.ameridragonsports.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482886/660609.pdf
    • http://nupob.whisperwindaussies.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969204/20fa05.pdf
    • http://sotoxape.parsonselementaryschool.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695569/rubuwopow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4379/0760/files/roponemopadamajakafuwari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9649/0655/files/55464594679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48975286879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6412/1752/files/vimajolas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4759/8742/files/17468031295.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/riwemabosemuridaredexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5158/8507/files/xitavixupajuvado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7188/8803/files/69139209463.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1755/2543/files/nunapupovuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3673/5645/files/nadiniw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1251/4201/files/sazifopeburunezor.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_off00005e5f.bin
c11fe7fc3a807c70f35af00ab585857e435f5aa7c8da4fb9769d7380694eb9d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E5F 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f8e.bin
c13c31f1624287edb2f87216a2959c17147eb4378301a330c530de098a1b0882
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F8E 10416 bytes