Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a2c6276222aa91e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 09:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 97f249fb7f4a3efd37c7a934fb720c49 SHA-1: 4e568277ef646dee6f707bae567856dbf6fc04d7 SHA-256: 0a2c6276222aa91ed1b98c9462819d050441cef96a524b9c4db81f9c7746f4a4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bhagavad+gita+pdf+telugu+meaning. While the document body contains garbled text, the presence of numerous links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, suggests a SEO poisoning or link farm tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=bhagavad+gita+pdf+telugu+meaning
    • http://files.carriekellerequineart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874278/xogus_vokamo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0495/2735/files/fallout_new_vegas_sprint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2135/2606/files/netflix_movies_720p.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2214/0063/files/26362713499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7783/6703/files/45591870873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6187/0746/files/jisabuvirela.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0317/4308/files/portfolio_website_wordpress_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5109/8007/files/hp_laserjet_1018_driver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8178/5753/files/84736427009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1782/8512/files/sokebuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5621/files/xarili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4183/2615/files/59545096588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mutiga.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_off00006cf8.bin
569a6f0a2c362edd978552faaa3352e9fe6cf349daf7e6af370021852847a8ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF8 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ee6.bin
49fd6fc6b05f7ec101fd0945be9783fb9c72789d9d93144a5a7e50c023b0090d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EE6 9980 bytes