Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a1c97e8fbb61c1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:41:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2135f12ca48d1ba1b9d7ff519af9d77b SHA-1: 4ebb3045ce06fb5a7a3f627a14961b8ea77d4fa1 SHA-256: 2a1c97e8fbb61c1c53063c5c385f739bbc7071d46719ba05334c909d597171ed
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged for containing a malicious redirector link and a large number of embedded links, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=a+history+of+architecture+settings+a, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=a+history+of+architecture+settings+a
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/29455465545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6918/5943/files/similar_shapes_gcse_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8475/0743/files/catholic_annulment_grounds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8803/6505/files/suzufeditokiwedojupuzodi.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f4de5e_e208ca20440b4dceb3073248e9ce378e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d4fca41c453b4f93bd41336a055fcee9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e555a8fb9454e799ab6494884fca9d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_535d5e5d905d4592bf1b433bcf1437bc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_557ef9adb0214150a28c22eec9a18ed0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27392185694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8106/files/ranofafezopaxoze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0498/files/71894571751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/pawom.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a382ee_eef8cc99361e48349735fc49d3144cde.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/405339_bf54921c445941acbaa65a66f133acff.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_off0000689c.bin
4300b431dda01238ee71e404c6cb2210b3a208a52210ed036e205c916a7586aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x689C 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a4b.bin
d90f456bf617a8c15a47555b10ad50018b9daceb1aeee661d4dd22852fc65d0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A4B 9956 bytes