Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ba2196d9f5ccdd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 03:26:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2d875e898f4617883d5e05ac6981134b SHA-1: 67ab09b95689cbbccd85e8d268e41b4b7ad114a0 SHA-256: 6ba2196d9f5ccdd3768095eb21d5c911f4b9a33e05baea0fbb277a092a86eb57
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent link directs to `https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=rick+warren+bible+study+methods`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to malicious or unwanted sites, likely as part of an SEO poisoning or traffic generation scheme.

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=rick+warren+bible+study+methods
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_67212efc73d74239844be4f70bcf6f48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8248b4693e04bb9804f58e2321b17a5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b9d5f0e33d024f5fb317caa146eee7c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15e9eb2a86294556bd47030af114e33a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_87d00bb687ca4e67b4ae52a38c2d35ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_75f2379b2b204ca4b35a4f382879b9ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_23cc281dbdae4dbdbe34c9fb66888ff6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c0483a44233446fa93c17cea1211680.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5d89034d119d48c48fec966aeb7b236a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b588e040d72f4c9bb383a3954987327b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2cce5fc364844c828ead48127fa3a40c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_136a7fb3610b45b89b3d2de77bad39f3.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_off00006fe7.bin
987357eff2bf75b1e68aeb51d20c3019f62f1a5501a2dbf10df6e4f12f8b4d9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE7 5584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082ca.bin
3be18fa1cf4986398da25784ba1510dd8806cf09ca02540cfe648e06a2a69acf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82CA 10744 bytes