Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9de1bb04fa3d324b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:50:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f041b28da3c19d9b41d7b920e116706 SHA-1: 0aab77bd76e7a613d75e9ed0da10fa7a3767781e SHA-256: 9de1bb04fa3d324b42860be2bae9ec27b1d4dbf4eb5edc434ebd18d1665509d3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external links, indicative of SEO poisoning or a phishing lure. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=glioblastoma+multiforme+malignant+brain+tumor' is a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains, suggesting a coordinated effort to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=glioblastoma+multiforme+malignant+brain+tumor
    • http://xipokadi.glorycdc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453251/nasasurugibevu.pdf
    • http://kaxudepi.1point21photobooth.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741024/5339936.pdf
    • http://vobenis.alyxjacobsdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070993/ee3f6568e65.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6081/2190/files/81452475948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0359/9272/files/suxozanuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5769/3347/files/55440033399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2374/4674/files/71657004878.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5981/4306/files/37265996902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2937/2836/files/sizobonajababaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6038/8259/files/bofoxadaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8198/1347/files/guitar_lesson_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7016/0032/files/91867005904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7560/9510/files/39857379197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3301/6982/files/guxizixizajiku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2980/6759/files/wanedutorinususapafew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3645/8654/files/7953571665.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_off00006b7d.bin
e4f2a2e1ed3cd5ee596cc5753516e2c50dd7c0a25a81e8ce4434067bf4b3f303
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7D 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d49.bin
17b3dcfd26b56a6becd8d7c1959515af4613baf43947e6abf1dd0bab4ec760ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D49 10028 bytes