Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca116ad7d0b9e993…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 13:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf04fb90980fc17bb6b22c1a30d8e13a SHA-1: d181b90c491a458f3ec25d096a1281b330aba6dd SHA-256: ca116ad7d0b9e993882f7b984c4d4b825bcbb56c22f63cb7f4ac6d75b43f2d8d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=understanding+the+linux+kernel+5th+edition+pdf+free+download', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to malicious sites under the guise of providing a free download.

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=understanding+the+linux+kernel+5th+edition+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.llenise.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775309/vogiji.pdf
    • http://files.grinlaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775342/2208056.pdf
    • http://files.artisanresidentialdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303068/1868334.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4259/5239/files/74096840589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4576/3744/files/98760259090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/74491340717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0349/5071/files/befixomuwaxoputade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9494/0573/files/71568555654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dofupuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2985/5393/files/xudijolojotexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3774/files/89632043686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4494/5571/files/algebra_michael_artin_2nd_edition_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9769/9992/files/nujavejupiximasofizepos.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_off00005c80.bin
e470bc6bc565294014832fbb232ac24e8fa831e1b380c93b3ae8e3cc91dc3b6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C80 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f56.bin
8fc477bb8961fe20f7171c3e2e4303d6d4e6428f004b147cb7508adac6ffaf28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F56 9996 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000917c.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x917C 4324 bytes