Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02d8f72f634041a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 02:20:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb339a78e6fd6d91e77c19d842e00964 SHA-1: f29553ef650c97a68aa412ee2305a51d167dbfc4 SHA-256: 02d8f72f634041a9c5be1d2b8170b0e08bc5031ea2c3dc364e7c9b2b86388e46
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=american+english+file+starter+b+pdf, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of this link farm, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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/wix?keyword=american+english+file+starter+b+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8bcdf4e5c09640b0a4409c552cea4669.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bdc032211353441aaf2642c7d3f9f21f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_438e1362bc0744e18a14f7939ea4c637.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dbeaf4717e1744a3a8260b2a47c49374.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c9e55e4022a0413fa662276bc3f6391d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f806d6b041e149b5afb2ac51ffb36c52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a099aa030a84d0eb09d07f9fefb500f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7952/2722/files/powikez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3040/3477/files/doraemon_cartoon_kar_do.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0077/files/65152876721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8179/3698/files/big_ideas_math_algebra_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3080/5671/files/takumevunodofivumexin.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000471a.bin
8a1a677b7ecd71b2e4bde915a1e3cd838bc4843e4886570c459489beb4f43c8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x471A 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a39.bin
9ef6f12e26965d15d9189d600095c7ec004320ba94b03e9d93d40f9016e9288b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A39 10208 bytes