Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f215e1ce09f09369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 13:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1931573dd4d395e775e4e58e6a59181b SHA-1: ecc2c64863c245eb908be83f93d0bf7384a185e9 SHA-256: f215e1ce09f09369ea9ed26968169c7d95339e697c58b6e932454b51052ac597
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 of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=princeton+review+biology+coloring+book+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to the search query, indicating a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious activity is the redirection via embedded links.

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=princeton+review+biology+coloring+book+pdf
    • http://files.skyaudio.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969169/de246a49364.pdf
    • http://files.jeniferwall.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384025/3603655.pdf
    • http://files.kevinseanoconnell.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384173/gezunin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kesutuzijakakewinepubad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4513/5260/files/bosofonilunozum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4361/8965/files/can_you_trust_a_vpn.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8468/3166/files/etiology_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3194/4602/files/pexowupifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/nogasixoferofiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8446/1720/files/kolamox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9515/3058/files/13058859565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7369/1045/files/preterito_perfecto_de_subjuntivo_ejercicios_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9220/5978/files/rekoboba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3119/0952/files/hd_avi_movies_2017.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_off000053ae.bin
5949377e1367741a69d5420f21f4ec772d98663758708fccf46c053b5fd6c2aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53AE 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006635.bin
901140fec3a44fcc2da07892a8a9a39656378aa3d16d20e8530a9be85b07e9a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6635 9516 bytes