Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 649fad3493f936f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 17:40:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 58b5fa5ddaf999f01183351084807b22 SHA-1: 031319d91043109bf7c59e5db6d0f3175869297a SHA-256: 649fad3493f936f379c7b820f06042eee2ee63000fd790fca0553faa7a6c9c22
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'philately quiz' and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external links further supports a malicious intent, likely for SEO poisoning or redirecting to malicious sites.

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=philately+quiz+2019+with+answers
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/20d83a_319ed553d910418ab59616220d4ec654.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_bd877c9858b94c10be1ee55ddba9d405.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1c37d_87579cf01c654c8b8bc1cc657c016e62.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0081/files/fumoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9037/0975/files/famous_psychology_case_studies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4694/4416/files/74209475242.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1444/7257/files/76857551941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5494/files/gorajo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599f1c_9ed7f0d6403b4b58bbdd4f3903c9a322.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_926c32d8cf9748e6ad86142add143333.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_1e2e9556b7974fbe98233949c946c54f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0642/6275/files/98679454456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6676/0856/files/financial_accounting_9th_edition_libby.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7241/2055/files/26045477040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5107/4214/files/porifesefetilalenif.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_off00005398.bin
acbe68b9d517ffd7d9d55faede9bc0413c70ffa521cf0813e47fccdb6593914c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5398 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066e3.bin
f0a07309048fc360c7fe5bfa96338ba5d3dabfa212b128237364c5ccc2ad6de2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66E3 10308 bytes