Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1778487e959ff1f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 01:51:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3440fa9da63de3f2ef1df8fa571f90f0 SHA-1: 1c91d68cb088bf499ed297f3315d76c881f90cb8 SHA-256: 1778487e959ff1f7d2e86eb60700adea550884452864f67e37188dc1931e4747
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a document about 'Lanny Bassham with Winning in Mind'. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many of which point to benign content, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the embedded URL is a primary indicator of compromise.

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=lanny+bassham+with+winning+in+mind+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db1da1_afc5bae90bab4331be42f9f85c98f25d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ed5e262a66c34816884a5691be4fe99d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/628a76_23a7dd53e0e24d10866112d4936d7693.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6346/8189/files/11861313514.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0386/2440/files/aldous_huxley_as_portas_da_percepo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/5451/5612/files/network_analyzer_android_app.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cb68066c48594a97925fb33432082abb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77941b_1a062cc19825496f8964155eaab17fb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_f431458b2ead49a881e409d40017614e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5453/7624/files/anemia_falciforme_ministerio_da_saude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2711/1841/files/47587358162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61066914906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3250/2421/files/ginem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0467/3697/files/vadekataloboxulaw.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_off00008e6f.bin
d8c7b75e81baa90d674e699a96ee05874239f68efbdde8b0a07f603757ebfde6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E6F 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a174.bin
918a55e043443b754d436c36810f75943c090bd092f1b2eb81920f78f6115575
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA174 11188 bytes