Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2b66690ca5bda70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20191d9244780c046a946284bc79bb76 SHA-1: f0f298855977af723b0b8bd41fe0b634e8adcaf0 SHA-256: b2b66690ca5bda705a2558663c80f4f8b707a38ba30cb89d84005001b4d9e5bf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=german%20language%20study%20guide%20pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This indicates the document is likely part of a phishing or malicious redirection scheme, aiming to lure users to harmful 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/wb?keyword=german%20language%20study%20guide%20pdf
    • http://files.forestveterinaryclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776089/edff0.pdf
    • http://files.adyartcenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871690/fawakaw_wuwakumoxag_zexadiru_zajuw.pdf
    • http://files.ivisionrealty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775825/ee7e04e2a415.pdf
    • http://files.cpccedu271.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775084/2055206.pdf
    • http://files.chrislewisjonesartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384573/78ae51ecae8db.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0700/0219/files/jolimebezatixowes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/54440827626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5153/9861/files/nirujozitawebikokijufix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4985/6669/files/36701386832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8553/7175/files/39637284506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3533/6616/files/32853761312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6717/9165/files/9518080242.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1347/9320/files/gazawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6558/1469/files/kolagogomodup.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a36.bin
61c4c5c38ac06babfb43a33bd416c1ec1c629c41c89153b4657626f5cc3a0a18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A36 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cd8.bin
a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD8 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008565.bin
b5134baf3d63383fc0cf445d471418da0aff925ae90bf19870ea182ee1124be4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8565 10016 bytes