Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17b89ad4146927f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 12:02:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7f7b921688362da3ff62c84894261fb9 SHA-1: 0ede4e42db031e5490cc8d0992f852bd1ad6120b SHA-256: 17b89ad4146927f11927f3a1a71e36edb317c07b42edce6b4018fb2d2ac641d2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=resistance+to+tyranny', which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links, suggesting an attempt to create a link farm for malicious purposes. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=resistance+to+tyranny
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_012c1a48c59c4d30b027a1d7a6c9ffdf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e6f84af0b08f4bcdb4f3f152bb374db5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_69ea20d14b0140ecba4d52c61cc1b7ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_463a20622dd04597870adc58658f5bcc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4f93db84c03e4e7a9d5561b7b233a31e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c256828c855547359a80938226cdcb4e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8200/6171/files/warhammer_40000_necrons_codex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3243/5093/files/the_talented_mr_ripley_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/4422/6460/files/didi_chuxing_annual_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5458/8316/files/91072930258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1570/7551/files/28561650907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5271/1586/files/12808075106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7473/8593/files/negusawaxikemadixivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8048/1958/files/sphax_1._8.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_off000049e9.bin
108d3de92d88e62ac72be129ef25decb6f441da2f2ce8ddf2974f72753fc2b8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x49E9 4868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a88.bin
ac9bbc9d2bb885be69a9be776607a98361da34a41fff86ce53023d4975410d06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A88 9672 bytes