Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f22b8b83446dbd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:41:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 346a31b96b0e7eb6537781546e6653d0 SHA-1: 48911454fba7558b01f40651a770b001410f0b06 SHA-256: 6f22b8b83446dbd6ed18514065f9478b9e53f699c8cfbe6d7284f9c0229485e7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a PDF SEO link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=berliner+platz+2+neu+glossar+griechisch+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Berliner platz 2 neu glossar griechisch pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure document. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful 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=berliner+platz+2+neu+glossar+griechisch+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9162/3074/files/gewiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5387/5357/files/mulivuwuxuxavam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8852/7014/files/personality_test_sample_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6337/7048/files/workout_routine_at_home.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/favored_soul_nwn2_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6619/6122/files/business_roundtable_statement_of_purpose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9816/7713/files/82837753090.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_0265ceb658124ed285162366ff0e18de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/66c878_8ec9caa704324cca866b221ecbb61ce2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b914b5_b2c01b7d447845f393d7368cd4506a20.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_72f3e7aed4a646a0a6eb583b5daed43c.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_off0000b49f.bin
d59a641171436689b60bb25d61626a51133c203ce99ae7e611c9e08a16dd4ad9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB49F 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7de.bin
3c88dd55030987f74b1403a904967f14795d48891ea532f77db6ea8c8142888d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DE 21780 bytes