Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03f7d2c08ff65540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-29 02:23:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b1c40d2c7417aaef3fc2ea09da843ec SHA-1: bdae8d62d384f722015d92e6c3cd56a8566f845f SHA-256: 03f7d2c08ff655408b73e5325656a760104bd884ecdfaed1f1796afa7aa557e3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=skyrim+companion+mods', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments related to Skyrim mods and the URL itself, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of numerous other PDF links further indicates a link farm strategy.

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=skyrim+companion+mods
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3406/7615/files/fakuwodowi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0864/5541/files/vagusobojidewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8829/8662/files/email_sign_in_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1991/7717/files/tomivonalibewobipixuzoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8853/files/toxazipuwuvabumupegajunaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8171/2287/files/badolu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_39f0641ceebb4678957cccd7fde98296.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d5254cda8ee940a693c157be1c2482af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d515d4ac674e4f35b6ceefdec33cb7d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_712dbd5c204d4b4094da27ff0538d1a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6a734cfefba04034afa32b3a9a67140d.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_off00007a00.bin
2a793ac8c8f3734e37bbf14ed2bab85dd39716a2b85cef0c228f660797d5f466
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A00 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c75.bin
8c43a621557ced748b1fc3b58fa77a98448680ab473e187b2bedbf77d402f281
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C75 10044 bytes