Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a422008640bb3282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e18cc00ef489b7bbcc83857a31574053 SHA-1: b189ff58e8f4975ab79a69ec7880e59331a00bdb SHA-256: a422008640bb3282ee8c2222c68fd7448e483abacbd03161f4d93fb3cb2ad3ec
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous links to other PDF documents hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be the distribution of a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to serve as a lure for further malicious activity.

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=now+you+see+it+stephen+few
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ac701_76e65a6c1adb4cacafffeb982971ed24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0725ec1cacfc4d5fa647dcaf7a2bfee7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf4b339f1a4347c79ef99a2861765bba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_89285515dba146d78a22f869ad5f555a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83a6177815bb45f1bf535570ea7ac4f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c129ede45344c8f9c428e1332799957.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05900a_915c435854024035aa33d27c64442101.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7d3cd954f1da4bada83340c99be8475f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6da380_9f307728ba0f47dca6e17c6ee988e121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6621/9941/files/96911824427.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2328/files/pevuwajunimi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3292/0732/files/danixaxinazizowunome.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b617370c43ad47229a90c2b3610463ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/69695d_5864e0a89ac24cf2b5dc5b40fb19e789.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_off000065c0.bin
902e9c91af087dfee089b3bb025a49e8402f0c1d7224b65c257b6f0f2145721b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C0 4816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007641.bin
b2affcd173227af24447c7868ec4e66b9b445c24eac3963282670b17e24a2ac2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7641 11020 bytes