Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71f0f249e8f6f8fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-09-05 05:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 43d994251d5ec3d68c92cda837ee4371 SHA-1: dab5ab84191960006ccc7c103d4747bbacd8e264 SHA-256: 71f0f249e8f6f8fce257a976eb5b331aa89aeb089da129c645858609ccb09816
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=russian+river+steelhead+report+2018`. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a reference to a report, suggesting a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the malicious redirector strongly indicate an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

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.link/wix?keyword=russian+river+steelhead+report+2018
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6686/0455/files/guborivonulojukonepox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4512/5281/files/iron_maiden_wasted_years_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3761/3461/files/gemiraduputon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fenajowogotuxukat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/0611/6260/files/fonuvujibokenelukamudus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6823/5675/files/razazogejakotulopenuned.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5678/9664/files/restricted_stock_tax_reporting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6376/9243/files/44520786956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1737/1797/files/vufubipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2818/5239/files/mandalas_sencillos_para_colorear.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/837d34_d3cdb7083ea24e97aadc244fe32597df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_7fd8f83ead2e4c28a5388ed6557a65a3.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_off00005dfc.bin
773a41f6c8cb43bba3551fde023b403cad9641facd3905b3f48e4d587d6b7d00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DFC 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007122.bin
1b6e8676e2eb70cc0426dadcaaae4e69d93f9292bb3805ae9ce2956d5e55db01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7122 9808 bytes