Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9d458ab0fbed563…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0947f70066590ac47590e022edb08f2c SHA-1: ec20d9b8d7f675eb8143d721a531a084fc2c634e SHA-256: f9d458ab0fbed56306352ad48918d4b8f0dff9794e0a8a20f3d5edbf7aedeb23
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 external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=2nd+grade+math+review+worksheets+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identifies this as a PDF link farm, with numerous links to shopify.com domains, likely intended to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=2nd+grade+math+review+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.miraclespringsfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775413/pagukonedufam.pdf
    • http://files.bodysoulcenter.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873771/37ef131bb01.pdf
    • http://dokutaz.123playandlearn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453109/zufawe-zagopovewov-litowuronetin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2326/0058/files/descargar_certificado_antecedentes_judiciales_policia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/5081520916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8406/9526/files/apostila_apicultura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2079/5556/files/naganasopawanaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7407/files/vigutum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5559/5172/files/sezuxoli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6560/6301/files/call_od_duty_4_patches.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7729/5516/files/38478364964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0029/8648/files/45586135102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3549/1490/files/30._710833_84._8897222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9395/8560/files/mathematics_word_search.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_off0000751c.bin
cd11bf622121f61e65f16429ffbfdfd8bb6dc596b60a70a09d8618daca1a9488
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x751C 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008857.bin
a37f8e1a179429f299be4ecaf8537646e78b744277daa3446a62307c9e6e247c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8857 10472 bytes