Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d886665d240e7688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:57:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 084e16395438961c6f5d93d12323c834 SHA-1: 5368b4bad8dcd4313d3b999fad7a14e32cfd300e SHA-256: d886665d240e7688b9e259ffa8f372b8fb3260c6b2a2561f48d7dc57beb15c33
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=inferences+worksheet+grade+3'. While many other links point to benign Shopify domains, the presence of the redirector and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest a malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=inferences+worksheet+grade+3
    • http://files.bennettclansculpture.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379049/fofozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5865/8469/files/encyclopedia_2020_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8119/5927/files/love_on_the_brain_saxophone_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6957/8147/files/54189184770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9439/2485/files/8782434951.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/45481368610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1238/2116/files/notazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1187/2667/files/strategic_planning_skills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/93279885075.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3845/7508/files/45901565385.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3490/1671/files/wajefogopevesevafas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/84511803825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8679/1334/files/31695655804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5937/2439/files/81227560926.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3158/4153/files/757862946.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_off00005482.bin
c1aa89fae67e2af3ec29b8f6b848464f051a1fe8c3e8731198be234d83b62ada
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5482 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000674b.bin
88e68da11f92bffb86e6c6377a01d81ebced2d812d4c956086ff0db8127fd03d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x674B 9552 bytes