Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a06142fbc094836b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-09-02 05:11:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 35b559d5ffec840fb0c5ac46088e7ea8 SHA-1: 27c60bd1bc102a3762300d3ec476be1c0a791b45 SHA-256: a06142fbc094836be1087ee060f31cedf7aa65e3262057c9489affe01e308ca5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=critical+ops+android+gamepad', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references to 'critical ops android gamepad', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous other links to PDF files hosted on static.usrfiles.com indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking and distribute malicious traffic.

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=critical+ops+android+gamepad
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f4b99_2061538d760f409fb8e2f3b81b170891.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7836c9_8b7bc7f23d064a9282fbd44b567288af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/041b56_21b6bc3df05741299cebc0471a84b8d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_923c4dae7b384207ada588585d5450bc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3332/7776/files/trigger_spreadsheet_google_scripts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1795/9586/files/alphanumeric_symbol_series_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4497/6278/files/afghanistan_war_history.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4920/5405/files/20936075948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1039/files/cercle_de_la_forme_dauphine_planning.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_008782262d3c4bb180dcfcc25671f269.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_70e854ce6a3d4db89aedaaf136a267a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a07927_faf55e9666584927895559cb260eb9ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db80c5_0a5c6e958b65498faec8659c97b20d85.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c33cdb_ff009c0b8d084922ae8174117111f81f.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007a92.bin
7f63790c1bd6e9e16c6a6b9194b0f9db72ea8b0c05e92d4b6cfeee6d7fb26fc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A92 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c7d.bin
3a97bcac7233f14ae90a57b4e4fb50742209dfd46565224fe07b39c338e1eb53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C7D 10080 bytes