Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff09caedae538ca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 11:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b08a2e84dc1ecb4fdd5e339e74f126b SHA-1: a36536f71d2b4927b69645c32c4259752a4977d2 SHA-256: ff09caedae538ca7e7432eab7bbae0162bfe84bc7b0ec586d338bf963edd2e4f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=college+geometry+musser+pdf'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute the malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded malicious URL.

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=college+geometry+musser+pdf
    • http://files.briankissel.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969481/994742.pdf
    • http://files.rememberingourlovedones.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872137/1006300.pdf
    • http://files.collinscovecottage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740141/79216a1ed.pdf
    • http://files.pos-tos.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856492/4af88ef0574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49816413057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8365/2506/files/nakugakuziwidovosikoged.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73807437975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1733/8005/files/mesmer_build_gw2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6980/9564/files/xudidezilivibup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0703/1966/files/osrs_chaos_druids.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1050/6404/files/48654415331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2621/1238/files/93309824970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0490/3069/files/buwopodunoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/noserejegedegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8121/1802/files/kanelovegaveki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1021/2519/files/lapetoguwekofovipa.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_off00006468.bin
57405de8bfc9670529a6220a17ce9a7375265c4acb68c6a99b67a970cf55b09b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6468 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075ec.bin
e4bf047f3ab14b05ac626204dec52101dd67c84eb3e3b8d3f376196e1af018e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75EC 9840 bytes