Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b2027bca9ff7340…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 15:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7e5ed088c402750535032e8232d9da89 SHA-1: 652f7f5ad5562f833af59effbb4f86cfb3064581 SHA-256: 5b2027bca9ff73405eb988fd5ee92dd9aa06d63dc86c6f7223642398a0ff2611
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=microstrip+antenna+thesis+pdf, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. 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=microstrip+antenna+thesis+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ceb2e8_8ba4821fae80435d9ea88bc9fb2a28f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3325f_3444332dc119481f8209185a62386002.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90423f_d6a4321e48d34bb19772a4e5856a0ee5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_70a1ffe7f8bc4e2f9c2a1297548aa03e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5286/7494/files/jerarquia_de_los_angeles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4577/files/dipefameko.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ecdb13adb7c4b1888c2f9531758d173.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/70a38d_f957ae30558148c8abcafb2599bd4e79.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_8e0728ba74694f9d963187daa5f6cbd8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_050f1b369ab447548e1e3f911f579662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5113/files/17054956190.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/appendix_b_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5572/7260/files/33252011575.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000643d.bin
e9ef3b2dd3d3f3433f50720a36c36fc5a89d50913feb28e69a28acfe868223ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x643D 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007603.bin
4ef0225cd617d0636a591d31bed22deb7b051cd5709db3ee34449b1f648298a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7603 10056 bytes