Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60817ab5dd3c9ac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad2546de1da8441a76d81ebb7e5194e4 SHA-1: fabf770b73591b20f8d6f299b702698b5d73d024 SHA-256: 60817ab5dd3c9ac6bc937db521a5d3ee53a581baef3fcb534b5459991210373f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body also contains this URL along with numerous other links to PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The primary malicious URL is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content.

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=ingilizce+okuma+kitaplar%25C4%25B1+level+1+pd
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4588/6884/files/lista_exercicios_tabela_periodica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8657/7828/files/taxufenukogedigokibelubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1576/6177/files/nober.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5642/1278/files/95617130654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0906/4607/files/elbow_bursitis_exercises.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/353d00_d4412e0405d34868aef0d1a3d7393f75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a6560a86dbcf4117848d2f1d9867529d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1786e8a9697c40ec83e66de10965cb1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9dda13_7320e427e0c94ec69e7d6d85277c9767.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_1275bbded8b0428b8e0d68c0c610058a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4f523f56af1f483e92e1b8739e9867df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_07412429a325477597f10d210de4cc55.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_off000060e0.bin
102c1f46152c0183f47cafa0c78fee0b075df933342c54c2f10e114c9f3e9d2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E0 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000733f.bin
5bc44b5cd20121b7f31d298afa8800da1be8b57a460168a2e1c7290a593da888
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x733F 11944 bytes