Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0dd4b3d1a0b027b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 08:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c4f46d6ce6f336c690119dac01486fc3 SHA-1: 014e1a15bf397c5cb0a9554122941216ee1d6690 SHA-256: e0dd4b3d1a0b027bafd17518e308054e1c3d7580e656b44bd3587968433712ce
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=vegetarian+cannibal+movie++in+tamil', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text along with the suspicious URL and several Shopify-hosted PDF links, reinforcing the link farm and potential distribution vector.

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=vegetarian+cannibal+movie++in+tamil
    • http://files.centralmississippirobotics.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070911/babonujesa.pdf
    • http://files.artlynch4sag.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968962/5741576.pdf
    • http://kegik.agnihealth.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/d565e0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5842/9089/files/menuluwesizuvigepogojag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3188/6998/files/pasizegazamefokoxan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6916/1126/files/libro_automatizacion_industrial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8104/files/duwikasosisevag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3571/3958/files/gebodozidilesupudepoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0416/5285/files/pesunogiketagizoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4392/9757/files/artisan_roaster_scope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9586/7797/files/aircraft_zones.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78476378890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2565/6996/files/assam_rifles_recruitment_2020_form.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_off00005c0a.bin
b4a52ae8dbe2b512126020051e45d2b9b1155db37ddf3ef4a7a68c7b163ed1be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C0A 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d5b.bin
c6718c5c032eb92516e5bb03b36b739b2fb626124796ba295e4cf9190a440501
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D5B 9992 bytes