Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c2771376b4cdd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:41:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6e1c88ab53c90f84b6fc6ecafbf1d6cd SHA-1: 6c735fd7318e4cf7679b40c76319197250f003d7 SHA-256: 62c2771376b4cdd7e74bb063301682cc2222e4531535f6d7d835ce58e26478e8
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 service (ttraff.ru) known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same suspicious URL, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful content. 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/pify?keyword=basic+electronics+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://files.wroughtbylight.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874361/49c771e9a4.pdf
    • http://files.icollectablesonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/16ef3.pdf
    • http://pidos.eahsnews.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/buwafaj.pdf
    • http://files.gloverfamilymedicine.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454620/xalupovu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/wumare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57917948996.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1143/2857/files/kruskal_s_algorithm_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8638/1207/files/28789419696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3000/3358/files/telijufax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6295/files/85951169398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/43778875991.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5747/8823/files/tenofusugexogavikadifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6747/2037/files/22713555404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3532/0742/files/gotham_s03e21_torrent.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_off0000a04d.bin
a965ee7f5113b9441770079ae609a2b06635a040ff024437eb113a94a639fdd8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA04D 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2da.bin
e039982f33dbd2a362a734c5fd1f6f11989c2908627f537f78660c2b0adfb9d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DA 10540 bytes