Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32d4f5e2c3dc4c72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-09-02 02:27:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e13f2ae498743896ef980ce3f286b28c SHA-1: e10e7c25e73847685c3f3fd6dfa21a0e6c9880e9 SHA-256: 32d4f5e2c3dc4c72863123159bdde1084ec68c2ea4b984ca38b938cdb550afc1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, with the primary malicious redirector being ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'statistical model validation techniques' and references the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the presence of a 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/wix?keyword=statistical+model+validation+techniques+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8270/3257/files/axure_rp_9_full_crack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7884/files/45442359959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/5770/2041/files/.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a359d_6ee516e5ce5346f29d7ec336945ef1d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33c377_8fcc4201f8734155830091f36869ceae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/007d40_32faf2478fcb420e8de7f7c9ba3b5a09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_91508e7358304576842ae55e365186eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b1054495f0e94cb0a6339e3c4811fb71.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4205/4048/files/pojufofenavogetezaxob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1172/5723/files/digimon_world_2_rom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5765/9560/files/craftsman_lt_1000_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4765/6351/files/julajefab.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_off00006cdb.bin
4a8c6541a9702fbc8e053bcc6de5bc8f06b42e77b2a49722b83ec12c60b9f783
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CDB 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fc2.bin
07797ba78ecb009423062e06b096bd8a88a6a81214f5978f94e7e1c3a26a8b70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FC2 11512 bytes