Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1bd1e30867e7f91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:59:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3151e89e2328af6e5784cd0bae9d6871 SHA-1: a552592db0fc228e1b0798c7ac560ffce4a23066 SHA-256: d1bd1e30867e7f919faabb872db86ac73eba6aa6f3e005ac3d37ac93d47468c0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=learning+disabilities+definition+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector URL indicates an attempt to lure the user to a harmful site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=learning+disabilities+definition+pdf
    • http://files.beeffoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/dadigaguxa.pdf
    • http://mufiw.littlechristianpreschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453060/16f26fc48.pdf
    • http://files.endzonefilms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739140/figeziwabigubabutex.pdf
    • http://files.thepreregtrainingcompany.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710627/8635197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4959/1718/files/polijesosusubawur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7193/8461/files/10951871445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9246/7109/files/43200962914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3489/4755/files/75936190516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9074/6271/files/lumipiwuxigip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4031/5294/files/97123047541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0006/9285/files/84723367987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6654/6583/files/lands_end_trail_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9656/4131/files/29233034625.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
stream_005_off0000979a.bin
046fa8a6811bddde250c382c458aa494d9e39f34a9064e098f859a51e460d9eb
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x979A 18416 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000636a.bin
9a4e0087eeb9394df5c6b9e77f6cec35d478be0bcf3f8c95282bbfd563dfe2b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x636A 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007575.bin
5d590dad16324ab42d7217c02d1556f08269cb3a472bf90a565a9587ffa685de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7575 9920 bytes