Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 078ddc452eb6613b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 17:29:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8a746d044bca3e64272203d155425504 SHA-1: 6dc36e9f6cdb2c55ee26427331b1da7e6644a3f2 SHA-256: 078ddc452eb6613b138dc8bf1d1f13d3dc9ccb15a88335081485b6611d771aad
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=latest+american+action+movies+2019, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous malicious links indicates a redirection attack.

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=latest+american+action+movies+2019
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7967/7590/files/vugisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1791/8875/files/dopuvepowag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8250/5637/files/xatizuzenimepedalozirix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4324/8545/files/gakezenonuritovoma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8276/0870/files/jim_pitman_probability.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/81618946863.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6789/1861/files/algebra_2_common_core_edition_textbo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pelezegagujagemubejapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3613/7882/files/viwamumupaburop.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/01bc73_53a0fa249c294c5487358d47b914ff55.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e62dca9eb4164cc580e4e8856dd25dcd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1c90dc_19f823521efe4007882a586535a894bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0ddc64a6189e4df68c5b58a07307fed2.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_off0000667e.bin
5a65cb68e1b83b5e43c74f0abf619f947ef9be7d9e0435e471b037180253b898
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x667E 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078c8.bin
3128ef88f5892134b8f9935290e8ccf7fecbc60676c61d27093e405d1c25dfe9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C8 10404 bytes