Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69122a9122c1587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 12:44:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f57450b902aeb6ea05e957001439333a SHA-1: 328c63ca07732e66008f0cd1964d134d47596610 SHA-256: a69122a9122c1587a4d951ac9e38773717deb90b82894fe253afc572b0b679f4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=antonyms+3rd+grade+worksheet+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a worksheet, likely a lure. The presence of numerous other Shopify links, some confirmed benign and others unknown, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=antonyms+3rd+grade+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.area51scooterclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740458/japezarurizojadonozu.pdf
    • http://risulegel.cocrimeanalysis.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303035/tusuvifubokilesipi.pdf
    • http://files.michigancourses.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814466/1771020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0237/9939/files/36759461393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2218/6656/files/bobrick_b_2111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4283/8427/files/whirlpool_parts_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7826/2689/files/rogefugoniguwojapasepikop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7587/0613/files/tulumumaduzexogofepib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2950/3908/files/nuwizatura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8905/8206/files/dutimatojaparazetup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7982/6589/files/jusekikase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8893/7120/files/jofataradasusin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4629/6982/files/75519928920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8226/1415/files/20189204450.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_off00006388.bin
59a7dbfeea75e0fc571dec16f5a211978c920047ed3e11ddf2d02115ff5e6de4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6388 5832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007757.bin
ee69b81386ef8534494b0c8fd7e98196ff7f1b3fea4a9dab4735511ad7642516
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7757 10596 bytes