Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 103f2b2f148b60e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 13:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6404c5c8427ed4ed3eb79d87dd9b5895 SHA-1: f9a930d47c1805baa75bcd3f9ead2cbc64f29807 SHA-256: 103f2b2f148b60e7ab1542d627268d7ab8d2ce6d3d1db38f13c96b44deb0db3f
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=arriba+6th+edition+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it. The presence of numerous other PDF links further indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier 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=arriba+6th+edition+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f6454569ec054182aca7b573c3613ff6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_702f50131bac4d9f877ced03cde7340f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_528edf90f4e54b988b0956dccf9e278c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a780ce450f614092ad228dac8e8e6997.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2ec6fa03b22d487ca22ac3d8f9f580e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0e41bf04d25d40b1af3d2ff4f7f16f33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ccdd99dee19742eaaccc7bd74fa3b04f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d6dca6c272ab4cadb0beb77fc36308c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_a824e441028641ff9c0080485c3323c1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c2ee0cc9306f4fedadae902f9e2f56ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f71dee7c754c49a1b475d2b705e2bff9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_88b9ef4220b64299b85ebb8981df6e3a.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_off000062c2.bin
3c18fa04c279624ae5bcc6c6b11bbc5a068689f596db7cfa7530d3f293ef05fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62C2 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007461.bin
79a22903c8a6cf201511661271374177b442f85935a2915e5a82aee08c92fad7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7461 11104 bytes