Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a0322c86977ab2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3381a911634578af54338d351e4fb833 SHA-1: e3ae6dbef0a9a4346411ac713998531efdb0bf45 SHA-256: 2a0322c86977ab2b2f96769b90cc6337a4b103b661847bf08cea1c83c81d756d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru', which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body appears to be a corrupted version of a manual, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the embedded links. The presence of numerous links, including those to benign Shopify domains, indicates a potential SEO link farm or a method to obscure 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/wb?keyword=osterizer%20pulse%20matic%2016%20manual
    • http://vozomu.thebellevie.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739197/8574598.pdf
    • http://files.cnymariancenter.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163955/8215727.pdf
    • http://files.ramblinghomestead.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874496/bc1666.pdf
    • http://files.gnostictarotkabbalah.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/rufufaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0910/6343/files/corine_biotopes_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8336/6551/files/bachianas_brasileiras_n_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9513/7187/files/86360540969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2539/4838/files/all_both_neither_none_either.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4732/9702/files/mabitasef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7053/6345/files/93911341807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9765/7248/files/brand_equity_management_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1607/files/rejatoxokebu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1393/9101/files/45075940946.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004002.bin
e305d5cd442a824b16026122728da323e0fede40cab2d5c00a160bcff3510ef4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4002 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000522c.bin
5d9dd2c1d9838b0a5628841c886dfe02754da70df2b79c1e5a2bf89b96dcc191
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x522C 9508 bytes