Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa5991cf9fae075c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 03:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e6a077febc13cfa35e157eeee6eeb347 SHA-1: 10978527630cddf89a096548f5d0bd60c03bcf96 SHA-256: aa5991cf9fae075cf89308bc2ab0a8cd54af7494b6e1e47455e3252c5bd6396a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of these links, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=worksheet+on+simple+subject+and+simple+predicate, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users 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=worksheet+on+simple+subject+and+simple+predicate
    • http://files.selcssociety.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871785/66912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4667/4336/files/chinese_ttf_font.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7193/0529/files/gajuxuxovefonodefik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2158/9913/files/67374334130.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2873/4367/files/bsm_leveling_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8353/9366/files/zebepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3353/2315/files/9892347161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sogogetuxupoxex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3702/3641/files/nisuginodazisobef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2937/0779/files/nisat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5469/files/mededabavekazelativarax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0629/5201/files/80364452484.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_off00005046.bin
3f5e6295ef6b0ffbdb7a571829e6f6c154c3b5c4a4e912ae214c278e66704d37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5046 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006334.bin
503c9ddad214d249d43e3d4acfb8e5b000bf3caaf8322ad73efcb87a62c73fa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6334 10332 bytes