Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4efb4743f7e9eae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 18:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bdf9f5f39bf663aeee98a86e4177afc7 SHA-1: 64583986793cc948e9bad1641353d1d3bc3b67e6 SHA-256: d4efb4743f7e9eaeec60706fd90215fb84de3272737080e5e82be02b93d4e2ff
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains embedded URLs that point to potentially malicious infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=acetic+formic+anhydride+preparation, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a technique to artificially inflate search engine rankings or distribute spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=acetic+formic+anhydride+preparation
    • http://files.jjenterpriseslcd.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164114/suzopogepowum.pdf
    • http://mupuva.debbiesangelsproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969465/7705967.pdf
    • http://wofije.ancientwavestudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857120/f7beaf128.pdf
    • http://files.mashamhistory.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856602/zesajakusojura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0662/3903/files/atomic_orbital_shapes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/vadinozavibumugutekomus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7679/4021/files/analytical_chemistry_for_technicians_fourth_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4145/4240/files/lusitalebojaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3182/6325/files/service_marketing_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6405/0332/files/31464892134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3687/6695/files/baxavuverivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2109/1484/files/32484348188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7849/1041/files/diloxoni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9857/8848/files/adobe_illustrator_cs6_filehippo.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_off0000784a.bin
c99f9909aaa9149db3ea36dceb7f94d5bf19055f13db9e63068bb21017003694
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x784A 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a08.bin
6710e42f55e1b13cb1bc70492bfd46d81de4a4ae592a931f32096d95f07dfcb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A08 10476 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae05.bin
d1a84ba8f0e4a827a048d387db8dd5dae3538f1c7e72415b16af587a9947cdc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE05 16060 bytes