Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de04200feba230d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:12:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c8557e10ee0129e63c95ad2bd117d0f3 SHA-1: e2884748668064670045623b5636be8ba02b3ab4 SHA-256: de04200feba230d45b3aa50fe86fbc835c933b08534e27d4d383e79b129f1372
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=acls+algorithms+aha+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern appears to be SEO manipulation and redirection to malicious infrastructure.

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=acls+algorithms+aha+pdf
    • http://files.cozycowcreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871692/3963515.pdf
    • http://files.theglassforeststudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453990/5940948.pdf
    • http://lofowaz.heartmends.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/4910136.pdf
    • http://files.alifeworthliving2.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874318/lenalaw-fowez-legojumafixixin-tunotababivofen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8582/4164/files/kabexatewilatijib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8094/9659/files/adaptability_dark_souls_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/pub_to.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3867/7924/files/duxawowugafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1908/2651/files/kugaxivosizinaragurife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7005/4805/files/94234795907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0096/1947/files/mezididisorenilori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5725/9420/files/14165884613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6146/8574/files/cover_letter_for_employment_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9535/files/yassuo_yasuo_build.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1836/2781/files/kannada_bhavageethe_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/0326/1606/files/branches_of_government_quiz.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_off00007224.bin
8ef6a436b6f1383bf4b188e5da39b28c8490ad2945bd0716db2f651cae3feb9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7224 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084da.bin
c013853bc50a1856409bb983178e9529ac380a81875f8b8a3e81de3d3676d3fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84DA 11164 bytes