Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1575282eabc63ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:43:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 19bb61642d4fe42bb917e30dd61c9edd SHA-1: 18f113217757deb62d189615a400be16a5ff80b2 SHA-256: e1575282eabc63ab9efefde9a8bb24561b074bc58fa2c23c5dd3fe5ec6d853d2
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=boyle%2527+s+law+worksheet+answers+pdf'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Boyle's law worksheet answers', indicating a lure to encourage users to click the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=boyle%2527+s+law+worksheet+answers+pdf
    • http://nizososiv.acmedogrun.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814070/sobabonikojabewuw.pdf
    • http://files.intuitivetouchworld.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695586/zetovinesun-vimademuli-pasubesusoj-limopagisuzone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0860/4829/files/kosawigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5234/2184/files/daroros.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7018/5879/files/31950046358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6556/5589/files/24777171113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7546/9473/files/template_blogspot_berita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3656/files/16225893702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3510/6200/files/62017340783.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3135/4774/files/78919393892.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_off00005751.bin
03c5ee57768739a4fb6dac789217c701b32eaa63f68746ca389ee43891852757
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5751 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a01.bin
1cf33cd0be7e481b490995972abf9edd4523ef5b14c67c32726f3570d50ad2d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A01 10236 bytes