Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd63971ea1720689…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 00:16:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f09ffdeb18968a3a56f7db9061b6eb9e SHA-1: e837530da336fb3d15a74dd7893d7cc23f731efb SHA-256: dd63971ea1720689199b300559cce3720da88fe5a88cbbc80b0f3e351a6696cd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=critical+thinking+activities+for+higher+education+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=critical+thinking+activities+for+higher+education+pdf
    • http://files.tacmit.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407138/e2ff4e8c362.pdf
    • http://files.erinmakesstuff.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453106/jemagulo.pdf
    • http://files.eileefahnestock.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384559/90becb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9338/5633/files/98755395536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2587/4600/files/50838746081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5744/5029/files/novipul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9795/6256/files/jizapavijofuvafutemiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9360/6048/files/origen_del_idioma_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1249/7305/files/lisbon_subway_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2959/files/kavobedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9946/files/6222567093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4141/5580/files/51429288947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5927/2090/files/39772404374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2299/2028/files/mugatovosiruniruzizosof.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_off000064aa.bin
4a38905df0edc63b154dd3d6f1421004f2f2f753f601d7feb6dd8f67f0387a5a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64AA 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007728.bin
657ff612aeeeca3f11dc3e710c236063bc0d01ee0fc1008d880a68e567e98abd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7728 10300 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a0d.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A0D 4324 bytes