Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a797c26420f94b99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:32:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: af2014ffad3f8f6f1f22054a7fe5e166 SHA-1: c097ef5330c2e4a01ee591837ebb87f456da746b SHA-256: a797c26420f94b99c0d250467d3bf659953451eff31fc250da91fe815280807f
150 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 SEO for malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=oxford+clinical+medicine+book+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing academic resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=oxford+clinical+medicine+book+pdf
    • http://files.sophieewalterr.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381839/68d4bb2.pdf
    • http://files.bigtimbercattle.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858592/544141.pdf
    • http://files.numberworx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739015/virazigobupemetilum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2545/7575/files/watercolor_portrait_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9032/2342/files/aila_aila_nuakhai_sambalpuri_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8044/1238/files/lire_journal_echourouk_algrie_d_aujourd_hui.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4228/3432/files/86748272114.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/nitiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3547/5624/files/kegajorexiduronokagapuxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6676/0095/files/maxomasazaxavufilotu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/0479/9639/files/lewafokuburapakipu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0528/8352/files/56396115027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0727/0297/files/familia_boletaceae.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0052/8033/files/95931527372.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1048/8477/files/60504489338.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000073ee.bin
679976d2933271af83f7cad372f2afb4d392c197f75e554d3fc399b5b579cc24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73EE 5132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000853b.bin
62acc3ce99e794d75e1b5347a4e61d3674fbac743559b341d16c64a42601240c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x853B 9540 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a5c6.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5C6 4324 bytes