Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6e6d00856b8f867…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 13:12:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e57eff48410e7b3ebb6669f958a0c2b7 SHA-1: 2b7dfc1a55484c1be75d74211b25f9a40cddfae5 SHA-256: b6e6d00856b8f86730e430a740787f12a283efe06584ea9cc63fa2cbe78436fb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Cfa institute books level 1 pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed for malicious redirection.

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=cfa+institute+books+level+1+pdf
    • http://files.foxlakeresort.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814594/2876884.pdf
    • http://files.bedrockgardens.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069824/pufevoxivuf.pdf
    • http://files.elliottfamilyreunion.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682051/a61492b.pdf
    • http://tewasal.inpursuitmultisport.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775868/c37676c4b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8012/9441/files/filewilopomigirane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/39461314118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5371/9453/files/86478418564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0002/1667/files/59951226545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xogasetixudaxaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1236/6229/files/33267883914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0465/6797/files/puropisik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0722/1658/files/takolabivizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3087/9125/files/bepuvudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9179/5875/files/20892795105.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_off00006faf.bin
96bc635cef94322a060846eb22b9e6a06e63b68201cbe34e59dad03efca0cf68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FAF 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000815d.bin
5ad69745a33678bf7d5302b15ff7e86cd65fd2eef177b98386137a4793a65106
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x815D 10672 bytes