Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cfef48853031bc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 02:36:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d07e8c3b4e3e271dde406820e9407ca SHA-1: 46dffd5d0f774c8992ba3d00b41c94aa51da9e86 SHA-256: 4cfef48853031bc618213f1e6006e44e43d94cd0d73fd642cf2b52a8e79e059b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=major+differences+between+bacteria+and+archaea', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Major differences between bacteria and archaea' and the wkhtmltopdf application, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious link distribution. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=major+differences+between+bacteria+and+archaea
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6130/4728/files/xanubakopi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0456/9815/4652/files/15492185639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6702/3259/files/getalobusitipiwazajeloxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5071/9637/files/resources_for_reaching_all_learners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/architectural_perspective_drawing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6523/6886/files/vemupepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/2426/8702/files/xawujewabelefimu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb5d8e9373eb4ad481575361d91ae47b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7553b7458ee24112bf07b3e51ad24065.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c8b9c234fc9424180aa2cc9a37cbb81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ba92fc1e47574f87b021a1195af94fb5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_682d915c828e49ccae42f5eabca10abc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf551a7e46aa44c3a958e961fa977820.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_off00007a6c.bin
f62ebb0544d07e764f49eef1fa7564637d941d1cf83167971b878639cca474dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A6C 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008cd5.bin
d82c739133fb18cd08e9217f199b8af6b67b6e7d691756c5199d38f5ed04f406
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CD5 10208 bytes