Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a1aaf998e98722f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2487a232ccb8765baee75958311062c0 SHA-1: bca53547cf83a0824320ac1f795286611ac4b61c SHA-256: 7a1aaf998e98722f438c074b2ee1b6c34b575e76f91dfc86e9a9d729aecf8339
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to distribute further malware or phishing content. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which are benign but serve to obscure the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the presence of malicious redirector infrastructure.

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=vernier+caliper+reading+practice+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1467/4841/files/vozudapuvuzolupuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/2356/5717/files/judika_illes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9392/2726/files/adobe_printer_queue_not_clearing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/2711/1576/files/dc_circulator_map_and_information_guide.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_16882a23259e45638e4420ecbb1d5e66.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_8f4c6e9f9dc042ddb2a4293fa4153a17.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3052/5590/files/togolof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6861/1998/files/net_autoresetevent_vs_manualresetevent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/6670274471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/mujixub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3896/4903/files/jejemokeli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5643/8165/files/tibalomalaxomevigefifa.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_off00005427.bin
ba1591fe8cae15cc044f943054a0756c30fff1e6722c56221cbd756af1e474f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5427 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006594.bin
e739a993219b1dd519c4204ae250b71d11967dcb14128ab9a7bec666e95bd55f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6594 9744 bytes