Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ac4cddac0916a0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-07-14 23:43:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 51050d49273fcc46252b6d4fdcff1e3b SHA-1: 142291c77dcd7212c73b50b216dfc0a7e678efa8 SHA-256: 2ac4cddac0916a0c8172f1ea982ec54f85733bb47e266abec29c0047de47076a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is ttraff.ru, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to 'Recognizing lab safety worksheet key', a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=recognizing%20lab%20safety%20worksheet%20key In PDF document text
    • http://files.chairelectoral.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406295/489ed29b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.estateart.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740493/1efb2e342fe28b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.framedbytheword.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636737/dezosiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/xatusekovemape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/zowovoxorokajisafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1883/8435/files/bobekezumopitowetinudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6645/8265/files/71036271845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9154/2681/files/neziwifuribamoxaxulefoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gosimepubim.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/xoliduvotadebuxozuxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fadofanejax.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/1904863293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delepozafejo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/63318780528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rulolinenu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/fidaromimojumijaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nefirizawira.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/xedosudoguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0968/7208/files/jolemorutapofezuxefimutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/79857012771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/ximisekexakivonuxatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/16481752231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1984/6311/files/foziriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3095/3627/files/lidoridisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3962/9218/files/19722686778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3428/0090/files/puniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000609e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x609E 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 3926a9864766adaad2c035f545a3acb813fa7c454fd1709f600207e1447a61f8
font_01_sfnt_off00007302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7302 9440 bytes
SHA-256: 1b424b2c51d6f0c62bdf51587327c787efdfe7b7737ece3651a41f5f96807026