Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0bb021711e8bb2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 21:09:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f2f454247fa633318710234f7e9787eb SHA-1: e750d8ab2324fa4297ce78d59980b424cb0db6ba SHA-256: a0bb021711e8bb2b3138e0b71c86c508eb911f9140c8c34a7db8290d41ad46a3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.ru. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, 24 of which are generated SEO PDF links. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be luring users through deceptive content or SEO tactics to click on malicious links.

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=freeform+channel+christmas+movies+2018
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2961/1171/files/73124465331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0088/9507/files/collar_penal_arrastrando_un_peso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3113/3351/files/cv_maker_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0751/5558/files/82947315505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0476/4068/files/tuwaguw.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6203b9_3ddee6c981f54296b7c929186e0dfa90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d48fe3_2e6307f3d9894757be679e07ceb89f2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bffe960db9a440b49904ed44d1a28be5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b25e8_56c4b4ef70e54334b3e8204e9d771346.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c4177_96600b435218460899014579c61a6e53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1a9b832ce99c473fb8a95568f8a7f68f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/57c819_c2c6fdd0ad0d4c038dfd95b79ca8fe8b.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_off0000b203.bin
17c5633abebf329211e8f30f1ecdbbe3bf59cb823043b0262ecc0c1a344b9e25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB203 5656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c51e.bin
51a53e3d8f470e2f09c6689bac3a75dbeb2405c163403502a997c7720ed5e214
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51E 10704 bytes