Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f62d8adbc03c4204…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 08:21:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b8c6681b623d474f3894c85f78a1233 SHA-1: 7a81d9610b79e7e9ae3afacaee7b60fbc56e7cba SHA-256: f62d8adbc03c4204d6b5d694d0cb167f09c6258a0f930506fb2907c9e36fb1da
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bird+box+book+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to "bird box book pdf", suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning or traffic generation to the malicious redirector.

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=bird+box+book+pdf
    • http://zodef.marblemoonfarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/7341003.pdf
    • http://files.sacredtransitionsintegrativehealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606284/74f3a533f1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3724/6118/files/90408673386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/32235168551.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0132/3421/files/waldorf_curriculum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9546/5892/files/buvedivuburejozatumoset.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9289/3093/files/12_volt_car_battery_charger_circuit_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3564/8409/files/27039678243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/48453103005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/22722647195.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3463/0554/files/2979123971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7259/3832/files/bmp_to_convert_i_love.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_off00006483.bin
655492ea788ba5def0c259802ca8c86ad7fe4a7948340fb7c23da62b43a75938
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6483 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007563.bin
64ead9ee5350048e5236406efa7091b42456f24a5cad0562d485f8e5ab093e3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7563 10400 bytes