Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0709cb3e80ec2714…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 00:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8d334b092f12feb75459e4ff21ec0dac SHA-1: 4a9065281c09e02449cb0169207a810454c133a3 SHA-256: 0709cb3e80ec2714a73898fe66a0670148ef55076ca4490ec199f9d2930d66bf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=valkyrie+tera+guide'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to a 'guide' and includes this malicious URL along with many other benign-looking URLs pointing to PDF files. This suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=valkyrie+tera+guide
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b4b2e687be3540d99d19a2a5fd6e3dc3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f454b93d6fad41bc85e70e7b7c8c3dd3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7076ad1e52f546e98d73227003e511d4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5505/5002/files/55280340977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/3469/6869/files/pukew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9197/5580/files/60196832040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0027/3830/files/mitalemalodekezalo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6820/3942/files/60437618665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9069/6597/files/36147884607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/8473600249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8240/7335/files/6749939703.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c954.bin
5c47f7eca25909f40ed5e4fa32a00760eccbe55fe55e5dcac1adbcca719fa24d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC954 4944 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000da3c.bin
19560bd7bb214cc5f78ceabee0ccee39b94a4df6994c9d4d0d0dacfbc862801f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3C 11400 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000100bd.bin
c9557d91917e40dbb2ce09b7ef560a04a9a832ffe2ebcac6b50408a58351272e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BD 16092 bytes