Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 defd7eb5189bd687…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-22 00:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 12eb3ea4ff39428d4e031dba5da36722 SHA-1: b561cfeffde1fed5ab6e5ce6cfa43118676a47f6 SHA-256: defd7eb5189bd6870605740939b813fb6e42d6688366b5e7946c1a208dce3f1d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that the embedded links are intended to lead users to harmful content.

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=pronouns+and+antecedents+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.jjeffreymesserole.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/f3faf9c41e.pdf
    • http://fetin.thedesignsourceltd.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710592/1896963.pdf
    • http://zoror.kathrynjfogleman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/128240790418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2940/5600/files/organel_sel_hewan_dan_fungsinya.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1371/7662/files/call_ringtones_naa_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89089693040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8649/5388/files/advanced_mathematics_1_by_pandurangappa_c_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/filubomolujesoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2981/5705/files/11232436418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/rumigolozafojokefugupugat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/mivexonitas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3321/4621/files/python_base64_string_to.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4836/8288/files/bible_for_java_nokia.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_off00005f6f.bin
84d96b6b94b8806bfca1d0984526e1366e76e4c95b5d4e992ca6dcb95285b972
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F6F 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071bb.bin
69ab43cc2926a9462e8262204ba60f9fb80987459bff442639093ad4b452f131
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71BB 10076 bytes