Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e81316cefa806873…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 12:40:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b1d038f4b0db14064eabb4146f60359f SHA-1: 7c6dc0d361859de11a49c5a9fb9abd34ccdbb59f SHA-256: e81316cefa806873a21782a089bfbd65b2478a6eaeb62b60a962e6ac8da6bcda
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, a common SEO poisoning tactic. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=daughter+of+destiny+benazir+bhutto+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=daughter+of+destiny+benazir+bhutto+pdf
    • http://files.shawfamilywellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814101/6132334.pdf
    • http://files.leeoptical-malden.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814492/duwix.pdf
    • http://files.easetherapy.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070105/9a6b91bbb.pdf
    • http://files.4hcampohio.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969399/mivole-luxetijevipoja-wijepa-sadegonosarutun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dofupuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3260/0985/files/17269419293.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0099/5741/files/dusupisivap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4034/8059/files/sigofito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8821/files/56221007755.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2562/0374/files/pusojobiwoxekov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6730/9206/files/sidezulufapogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/86411155316.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3041/files/28162270792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5798/5189/files/silicon_valley_s04e01_torrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6221/5324/files/50894347252.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8374/0822/files/sowavevutemewew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0807/1576/files/novelekabamubo.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_off000061b8.bin
7dafb0b089e15f61550bd7a646ff0a1c068ac5f9c006f9e2a9dbdd62d590a617
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61B8 5560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074ad.bin
1c995dac751f616b35d3d51d0130d237122b4155380dd34aa7f7e8d16a92f3b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74AD 9936 bytes