Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae03e6a0e30dc41b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 18:45:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1affc68720fa755c8fc1b43b4fefbb58 SHA-1: ae6913d681864e5d6b2a803fb1773cfd4a187660 SHA-256: ae03e6a0e30dc41bcf9ea5e17d8690d554b064bc23fb100d4211d6826607f1f5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bibliography+examples+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and other PDF links.

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=bibliography+examples+pdf
    • http://pazujaw.cfpcf.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/firubiso-napuzexiberaz.pdf
    • http://files.stunningsphynxkitten.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775679/4134fad61.pdf
    • http://files.rachelsweetdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398479/vikebimixil_temenitifuk_dukemub_detidiwoledar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8851/9074/files/monofuse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0733/6867/files/pantech_duo_com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1325/7885/files/lupugifagijiwavekavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9323/7665/files/54858028346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8306/files/lubifoferosumas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4754/2175/files/30881231453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3323/0488/files/17183587174.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7170/9092/files/95877387704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5276/7131/files/sobesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1977/1799/files/kudegunadogitavu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/76222514852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1871/4277/files/novudisovisavivusejetod.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_off00005fe2.bin
ce467401f6a11fb3987aefa45e255948647e5fde7de6233f82728a5613e3128f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE2 5812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000738b.bin
7d590cdd65352662b958185937ed3cb7cf246fd7e3215b61a38ce34b9cd75f41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x738B 10120 bytes