Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b4fe7208f3a0ff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-09-02 14:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1936258a13accbe571143baa0697d200 SHA-1: 4213ca983cfa938bfccd99e4d50d4c151fff5e0f SHA-256: 0b4fe7208f3a0ff90903d976b591e14c66901c47d90643e26222399676c75f06
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=nonverbal+communication+definition+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain this URL and references 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated programmatically. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector or for SEO poisoning. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=nonverbal+communication+definition+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7301/9560/files/std_return_code_26530_error_code_00011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1907/5737/files/jegizomikogoxemetoxeteka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6166/5192/files/88911250085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2624/3996/files/toyota_android_auto.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fb5067_9273b3d2ef374136a0d0e1458205fe78.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_e4865b2f748a43fe972dde1d11bee42e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7082a_20c6197b4cdf4620be664c9bc97578e7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8446/2745/files/jopapakalowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7537/0136/files/que_es_cacosmia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9309/6600/files/calendario_liga_aguila_2020_2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_0d7a6affa3aa49f8a25d6c686bdea8f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/08fe48_326cadd03f5f4d51814db710bf55ec8e.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_off0000850e.bin
ab2841ef8ed9604ed89e49e019f0c27387aee40eeaf661d1c17b0966886727a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x850E 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009701.bin
ecac477c240670f35a1b63a4044c22370b7e5be7b9a2c1822a1761f0d5996336
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9701 10600 bytes