Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85cc8a8e16c5a10c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 10:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf4d5574517fd246b248cf3a1ccdfaf6 SHA-1: a6ecb02a1705d751f6ac337d07e8d0fc30a78d2e SHA-256: 85cc8a8e16c5a10c1f449a999c416a564e2e76197b7c0fdee826e5f6e6cb4c9e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=tales+of+vesperia+tabar', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references to 'Tales of vesperia tabar', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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=tales+of+vesperia+tabar
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ccddaf2e3d9e4fd18186dd081a81cf70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_eeff66b13e2941649f59fc911827b112.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_91b65c4aed5c49e0b53f8eb71402cae4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a1fb72_e93ea99668d34d8885ddab9717c9c58e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2728/7451/files/calendar_method_of_family_planning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4390/3905/files/zejudivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9897/2066/files/lilegekogigodofiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4529/8077/files/7158376749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5670/8254/files/village_des_pruniers_secte.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/

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000080f9.bin
f99f330365988c41cf59a5c76266e39d6e8f50bdd46d633ce31ec1fb2b6f6234
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80F9 15168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b06c.bin
121afe9e2ab059d874ccc049030c8b40172801f27fe61070b8c7e6d1e3070112
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB06C 4724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c08c.bin
2dca892ca0feb03b7551193e25a055137651ccdfc4fad7db2110432c5b32ecb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC08C 15796 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000f0f3.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F3 4324 bytes