Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e565e17e999e8ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-13 02:33:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: df8eee2203aafcf944e68b2e228129d4 SHA-1: 58aeaad0b9efe5783d668058d3190ddbd1a2cdeb SHA-256: 9e565e17e999e8ba235267216ccb5795c6df86f664fcf6c1b6e8782b3c7aecad
154 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 of which point to Shopify domains but are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=miller+and+levine+biology+2020+online+textbook+pdf`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=miller+and+levine+biology+2020+online+textbook+pdf
    • http://files.whiteoakterrace.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969597/8195e.pdf
    • http://nawapu.kpollack.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/0fa274b.pdf
    • http://mebilev.shineayurveda.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303338/6555f8a1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2693/2124/files/lower_back_core_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6982/3383/files/29567236184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5597/2506/files/botw_max_hearts_and_stamina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4295/5676/files/taburuzobupizudofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8115/4198/files/fozisib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9780/1375/files/karamivudidupazal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/death_of_a_salesman_online_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9567/0427/files/6513203233.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0802/3966/files/fegaxufudiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8298/1278/files/visagalenupex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5031/1579/files/48965091181.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_off00006554.bin
900cb04ab403b1fce5d49f0b822363a44b1135c3409e872466bc96e305017734
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6554 5744 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007905.bin
52ad298be242542e7df1f7eddb56bca540c92adcd5fdde20b032438d614cd92c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7905 10104 bytes