Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad0c18c72e3d5f9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-26 13:01:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 262e7746f0d09b7058292ba9a47de7d6 SHA-1: 6b521017bd61651d8e07d20130f44a3a9f59b33c SHA-256: ad0c18c72e3d5f9cfcb0066009d0bd14fa5ae28ca09823721b0b0152523a9945
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=looking+for+group+reddit', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links pointing to external PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body contained mostly obfuscated or binary data alongside some of the URLs.

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=looking+for+group+reddit
    • http://gifolaw.senorfrancis.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/7e1461.pdf
    • http://files.sncdancemarathon.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871705/seveset.pdf
    • http://files.joumc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738896/2526387.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4349/9677/files/body_language_essentials_joe_navarro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5370/3590/files/26730997124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8085/2383/files/papulabowowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6546/files/11573500098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3282/1412/files/89624929781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9768/5157/files/99434638710.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9092/0099/files/nofisufemefexewatitifen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3174/1095/files/fuwepavajamuvibada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/72426908281.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_off00006943.bin
59397ba01eb82747c5fbd0e0fe0e311066a0255bb74246b6b411fe636693088a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6943 4796 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079af.bin
2b0bff55082a1fb9c561a24d5a72377288ca2b9173dbd0d6f1e8bc6362168451
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79AF 10252 bytes