Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97644195e3890819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 17:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f1fb20e1776c269bebf8b40330e8163 SHA-1: 8d1d13557fda10d5357bd526d150a96efa46136e SHA-256: 97644195e3890819fe719b35c42023a78dc624958c5a1b5be389522ed2aa9f17
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting an SEO link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=systematic+theology+by+john+frame+pdf'. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure.

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=systematic+theology+by+john+frame+pdf
    • http://files.marlowpartyplanners.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740880/putugelijenona.pdf
    • http://xizasiv.alaskahistoryday.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070152/dc46eec7fe375.pdf
    • http://files.bellalunadowntown.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775982/15832db97.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5522/6773/files/gerudupugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1651/0873/files/mujababuje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5251/4979/files/jomifojonutobusudepedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/crop_candy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5890/8584/files/zircon_studsensor_pro_sl.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6662/2106/files/xagobufowaxokegabepim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kozaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1865/7697/files/58751783053.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6990/5825/files/55584530714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3384/6175/files/add_gitignore_to_existing_repo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7182/3262/files/mifimiruxibej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8991/1194/files/simedibosug.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_off0000728a.bin
06a92af7cca16dd95b0ba935892c431d846d2cb106837f41fbc676ae897c980e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x728A 5992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086c8.bin
3b7b71826c19a89189df58cfd2f76d4fd0ba8af0bf2a9d2fc396b2895c920f7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86C8 9924 bytes