Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b97160d1ab61120…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 05:38:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be23466ba3b75829207e6472dbf53e1f SHA-1: 844e20e3a1fea94e7a1be385828ae3d916e1b2f8 SHA-256: 6b97160d1ab61120454bed31dd014d6eeb6d7b90ff7b94d85516324282f5f1b1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is flagged as a redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to academic work, likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent.

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=form%25C3%25A1tov%25C3%25A1n%25C3%25AD+bakal%25C3%25A1%25C5%2599sk%25C3%25A9+pr%25C3%25A1ce+uhk
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1845900f8f6c4f749ea740a21fd36569.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83b1b3_9b32052a084e46c9a9de0aa31856d7ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_03eac66e30104d518342abf41c340fb7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_b92567ed195a451289c79bf5cd88c6ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74e905_85d455a549b544ef933cedc78fdad303.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0779a3_2d94c6c5eae44ac9b7eee896d77092d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_b20f3330af53455094e3d0d711f43d9d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/269bb8_70c3646f7fe24ed5be4cf442c42a3c2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b7182_ea90ed4982344a86b3364435594c6cc0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a6e5e9_6fc0a2b605ca46dead950e66a2943c7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dad90e_6e99ac9be00f4672a63846c12437b635.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_041e6f9d7d344620b8477672e0457a47.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4117a9_cc084d7cf6f24b0eaed6809b9d760a87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c76bf_aeac75249e244cc4bd98d98cd0ccb345.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_11d7e0a432bf4fbebf5515a8cdde996c.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_off00009681.bin
d9a5559d5262955bb9332e26e545015c16828547eab25acbb643ebe6e84d0f6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9681 5948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a98b.bin
e668a4f46f729c701a9c7a3dcbc24527f30c8d50b0379113c1a1bd0ad7b2fab5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA98B 13776 bytes