Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a919f1f01badae84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 13:08:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 173d0c99ddfcfef1e499adaa6efa765f SHA-1: 38f6ae2ea7fad3e2dc59f70d7c4227744a2530bf SHA-256: a919f1f01badae84e59bc004696e8a57101e157c57558d6daa0fd7790263ed6f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm used for SEO poisoning. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=tecnicas+de+aprendizaje+activo+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the same URLs, 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=tecnicas+de+aprendizaje+activo+pdf
    • http://files.stefiecakesandtreats.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380042/takewewusemerepasub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57148414383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1178/0257/files/62893460084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3811/3955/files/detective_conan_episode_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9658/1020/files/vazoruxukiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6900/files/jevebarujegas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4336/files/botijozulozorurobipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0409/2839/files/consulente_automobilistico_libro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8951/files/rokidodokolowerekenomipax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/8750/8135/files/functional_programming_in_java_manning_download.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_off00005cbe.bin
d6c8e7079b2ad7ce701a0520e4da56aaea71bb69eaf4cc074c15a9a47fb660ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CBE 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006eb7.bin
385e294b78bb20e115e34b9646e43752b47e2604bfb4fadc583c9a2c2b2b7fed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EB7 11320 bytes