Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3503e0123f64ebe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:25:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8c04227a6213df5e59ea682b2445d6a SHA-1: 3d55ebee348e477476af8d255df9cf401f031ac4 SHA-256: d3503e0123f64ebe87437aa47e1673328acdf05449599d6aa92d28e90bf94a32
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The primary malicious link is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=a+pictorial+cyclopedia+of+philippine+ornamental+plants+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content or phishing pages. The document body itself is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of numerous links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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=a+pictorial+cyclopedia+of+philippine+ornamental+plants+pdf
    • http://files.misshaleyart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740123/2e68088a27.pdf
    • http://files.forbesirishdance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380825/belegep_tokuperem.pdf
    • http://files.wherelindagoes.nl/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/3156875.pdf
    • http://files.dbazone.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606537/81c01e93ba228.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0185/6668/files/mechanical_engineering_drawing_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0273/files/lopetemazatem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5642/1278/files/39910032048.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5100/5590/files/72535521076.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/wibafuwaro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4273/3221/files/32970973982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4151/3894/files/97321723097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6317/2502/files/47852344653.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/29878061118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0667/1517/files/24304460056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3654/9018/files/78370961104.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1474/1413/files/lelilezenazevar.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_off00004cbb.bin
8aaa2fbcc7de5c240bf010d9244dc6b1d3aaf8607de4bf22df5570f0dcbd5acd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CBB 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f42.bin
e89de00c97d4b9cf48256dc7d478c468d1ffe3b8cb167c23233965b426e74eeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F42 9588 bytes