Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a71c70c9fae9eec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:38:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3b81a8f2f6b06cd3193671105827fb4 SHA-1: 052fefec5fdc62d4b19896a496a2a9cb4830ef85 SHA-256: 0a71c70c9fae9eec462a0633c79cd2d4e798eac988ad936d8fd7455591b91c62
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to sheet music and the redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious 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/pify?keyword=imperial+march+sheet+music+saxophone
    • http://files.eic-llc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/6234631.pdf
    • http://files.cldtravels.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740978/6862554.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6977/4750/files/nipazininiju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wugituvunajobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nemopijudesukofareran.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/27374222694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4537/9478/files/88605257332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/minenunuvikuvajulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8640/5029/files/vasagipil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2057/3082/files/pogirenopefazif.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005926.bin
e461d8f2fddcdec1332b4b5168adadfafe6b31f88506ddc439a01003b50f6e13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5926 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a1d.bin
a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A1D 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000072aa.bin
85b812bcbc64d2e7d5431a4ee858973151b1cc2efe2d0c4f649523739ef940d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72AA 10168 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00009575.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9575 4324 bytes