Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15bc2a5e273b435d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b876509c4b2e496fe022d0c58250c5e9 SHA-1: 18e18d63693e89b6eea8764c8c70524504ac5ce3 SHA-256: 15bc2a5e273b435d22b79eac5060631c2f4de7769d75c646ff114b51f4393ea3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure or are part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=libros+de+lactancia+materna, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external links, suggesting a spam or SEO manipulation tactic. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests a common tactic for hiding malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=libros+de+lactancia+materna
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_596eac91c3754e41a552bd17dde78c53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b06b5aaf1a4144489b5c9a0afeb24d87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5cf23b_d2802ca445004833889450e8e91d6bd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/405339_0a29837dc1aa498ba0189959e210356e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_66e615173dc842f485a4b6990aa8b426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9311/2472/files/79344062525.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/verbe_irrgulier_anglais_avec_traduction_franais.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3826db_4c31e95406c64c9fa4b5b346224ffda6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_c44b5d1afbcf48729315e76328796c9f.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_off00006ea5.bin
bf953dadbb971bbb9ef0ab385861afde5ef0af3684ba1e9d730eedddaaba9c87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EA5 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008012.bin
b6b93c0d1e0d8a0e5b63316626debb456d10162b1917c5559accfc27536ba159
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8012 11472 bytes