Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0be13ac5a9c74153…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 01:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1cdd1b2807a8362cf222348fc6a474db SHA-1: 1319355530dd2062b7001b0ba8fa53d06328e54c SHA-256: 0be13ac5a9c741530011fe25275ecd13ebe7b1772997b815705541076db89ab4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=weightlifting+program+for+weight+los', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to weightlifting programs, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for the malicious redirector.

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=weightlifting+program+for+weight+los
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8070/4405/files/strongman_training_program_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/mulogifojinesag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8522/6403/files/naca_airfoil_database.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6104/1559/files/ldc_answer_key_2020_9_sep.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6ca9ee3b85aa4b28a40204dbd0cb6a60.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/09c3c7_dc0a4cff7a184f12b20299675178e0a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9bec7f00dfa645c18488ffa75b96729d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8374/9781/files/diastolic_dysfunction_management_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3507/4465/files/givifokikomu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8684/7905/files/bixozunopegene.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_off00007ca4.bin
6f8169a7f4851d554d87ca26507a044e3fc56db7e2dd4d5f62afd78e75b63cd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CA4 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008efc.bin
804a3f18b5de5e524ccc49fcbd3e087b121104b31e1aedd512ba49f59f713378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EFC 9848 bytes