Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc9076eb4a18dad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 16:21:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31a3edbe33081798be5d95e6487f4b8e SHA-1: edb14150794fec09dd6b88b9c7707e0d65457bb7 SHA-256: ffc9076eb4a18dadc5ef2e6026b521338a96841e164a3cbc4bf4c4b8e00359e9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, forming a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=2019+almanac+planting+guide', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to direct users to harmful sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm heuristic are sufficient indicators of malicious intent.

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=2019+almanac+planting+guide
    • http://files.tackandhorseoman.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407737/00e48a.pdf
    • http://luzidi.msdanahy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775627/2200c09d5bb6.pdf
    • http://rerimi.cspkids.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739625/011730d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9281/1681/files/speed_card_game_rules.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2986/4343/files/academy_stars_1_workbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/fezoteralubor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1070/1981/files/62992209993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9991/2344/files/faxemoliforufimitexunif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3015/0309/files/95438929377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7778/6018/files/tajibeperilukolezezizamib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7063/3624/files/vetiketatukuwikoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3139/6501/files/the_three_musketeers_by_alexandre_dumas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1818/9980/files/artificial_intelligence_in_insurance.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_off00005f77.bin
c0be3513a86ea6533216c9e3f65e052aae1daecad46c3cfd4cb77d2f8484f60a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F77 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007219.bin
5e45de9f613cf8ce3e822a0722547b1b38d8c6932ad7df56e50321eccf6978be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7219 10292 bytes