Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aeceff48ef88a8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:23:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb8f94d3a4f60a06b92c40d6f8475414 SHA-1: 5c4b90d37ce7efaf5cf03f070c4fb64ab670f231 SHA-256: 2aeceff48ef88a8f4f1914388752356227e3681f878b9944815fbafcc88ba1b3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=libro+de+prostodoncia+total+ozawa+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the book title and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to attract users searching for specific content. 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=libro+de+prostodoncia+total+ozawa+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8307/9592/files/black_demon_shark.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2738/1924/files/business_intelligence_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8214/files/resumo_noes_de_administrao_pblica_para_concurso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3440/files/lexukipirefuxejekinawewas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6511/4775/files/malaria_parasite_identification.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0485/4426/files/92628626636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0532/9064/files/18990826420.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9644/8917/files/3114579354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8364/5599/files/4481006871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/5163/2028/files/.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0944/9884/files/wulatalilakulageronirilaf.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_off00005abe.bin
07132051b42f0652c44dadfa21cc3c68fb61bf6bdcef85f2eeb4c7230f1d6fe0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ABE 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d28.bin
0ccc835b7013350cfafa113b7d49e0fb6bfcc8c949bda95eb4c278f8e649c057
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D28 14688 bytes