Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f22c78225c0617b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 16:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1817f932b98288a3e3883363d4ada2ff SHA-1: 4bf7a86ceb96f123761729beff49478f562c58a7 SHA-256: f22c78225c0617b3ed1dcddf3eadf7e854b8045905e058df648345610e8b3c02
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 known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=journal+citation+reports+2018+web+of+science'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same suspicious URL and several Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content or redirect users to malicious sites.

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=journal+citation+reports+2018+web+of+science
    • http://waxebeg.rebeltownrollers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454024/07404d4d19a0.pdf
    • http://basug.bostonhughes.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/09e7c8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0346/9221/files/95957330819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9186/8313/files/dozatowokavugivip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2634/1278/files/63248863243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3414/0072/files/66174994144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9602/3975/files/88523186958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0262/6202/files/79489786092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/25322908130.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1361/5264/files/allen_test_papers_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6441/7695/files/sorted_list_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3191/9765/files/6th_pay_commission_of_maharashtra_government.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8022/8759/files/writing_better_lyrics.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_off00005ee0.bin
000bd4b0333117e1cb0cbc0390dc185a34c1e2427aaae506bf26157da18c1854
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE0 5748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007293.bin
ffa95d69de4ece06a1a5689d8e70762bf5085b1674fc9da6f5846b4f8d89d5de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7293 10204 bytes