Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e29dbeb5d5fc48e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 09:28:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0cfd0f3455b12751d6b3e514664239bb SHA-1: 2b9a8a731abc22c2c00915b03844ac96ddf84df3 SHA-256: e29dbeb5d5fc48e23748c50859c8f85a229e5505b1b72f3989cac7debaab4b16
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 link to ttraff.ru is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. 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=probability+and+mendelian+genetics+lab+answer+key
    • http://bimabilo.kibafreemanart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437508/vigawejurobenu.pdf
    • http://files.ndsuswe.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378868/a505238964e84ab.pdf
    • http://tesukag.contemporaryedsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/6676439.pdf
    • http://files.axokok.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/xekezerafejabewofel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5874/7800/files/sololearn_certificate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7949/8918/files/17622730152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0910/6343/files/bridal_march_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6340/2905/files/pofudusupuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7508/0087/files/wofesusisiwijiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4595/1400/files/apple_pencil_apps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0190/3264/files/vixekali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0904/7708/files/black_s_law_dictionary_4th_edition_unabridged.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/34893867336.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2157/4049/files/free_calligraphy_learning_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3547/6636/files/22582882285.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_off00006f2e.bin
1689db384e22d0101d43ede80eefbf699d5814bef5a13e55743e08211f54ebff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F2E 5660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008272.bin
88fff233739f0915db042c120e79f45e380e92c7a11af605f59d3cff45c51b7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8272 13504 bytes