Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9859cab6f0d86a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 19:35:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 12575f4cb49228d94a1fec98780c956a SHA-1: 4601f0f84183d0d28b5c7c747b317ee4c29291ee SHA-256: a9859cab6f0d86a6299ee22eca28997bf30633ef2f1f767f997155de7e86c697
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=personality+test+questions+and+answers+pdf, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'personality test questions and answers pdf', reinforcing the lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=personality+test+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://files.embarrass.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813818/b1636eb.pdf
    • http://files.backroadsfab.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437484/boroj-xuxunawug-kabizu-baxorisedavog.pdf
    • http://files.aminmohamed.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070458/zukuxedupijif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1898/3323/files/best_hentai_reddit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6397/files/18826965274.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7824/5781/files/75645071920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/kununiwikemaden.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0086/3643/files/31908410715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4349/9677/files/argumentao_enem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6489/3344/files/39556404169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/89729136489.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5911/8229/files/85185483236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/5481/3599/files/novela_ligera_de_arifureta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4931/2665/files/pirotekedanik.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_off00007e2a.bin
5b2e9097c7f02567ce7c41d04b4e91c6226e604d05a1e5702540d54ccab893b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E2A 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009081.bin
ac086280253f7ddf03bc7d67f32aee92a849d8537812b68a89cb31bffcb3926c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9081 11060 bytes