Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4618c45eb141ee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:04:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c8d4c887909cbaed4b43b417c0198e24 SHA-1: 74951b6ae1bd1ce8de135344646ed2f1f1bc4d7a SHA-256: a4618c45eb141ee29dd4056d310c00bac0fe2852ba0fa3cf736f2a43a4a1aa7f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=robert+anton+wilson+cosmic+trigger+2'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of embedded links, with the first being 'https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65518_ddf0b87a82d14868aba29cc6ff2fb8ff.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of these elements suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious websites.

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=robert+anton+wilson+cosmic+trigger+2
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65518_ddf0b87a82d14868aba29cc6ff2fb8ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ace02d_96f35c80705f42bbbd958676f0ed3edc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/913720_b994827a7e8f41bb9992fbd4f79256a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ad2ade_918399ed978b4189995cc8f286c038eb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8255/5297/files/general_election_to_lok_sabha_2020_annexure_1_form.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bb76e93294e649dda410835ba43541f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ea319eff5db48a3b0b40251a6ba6f08.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e3b4622226e425fbc95cc7d4cf7127b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_917d8b2a606b423bbe4aa9011b4cbacb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/06497e_902029c002c74e0b8516d3ea315a64c4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67f5f7_f5b446bb31e2442a9fd1d20eb7cc09eb.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_off00005aba.bin
82d11ddb9639c34df80804f9ccd32da0eec1e5cdeb12f4b74238e7a3d94ab106
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ABA 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d61.bin
754c2e92f06493e5797c19454131ace68189e37e0024406c4ea9049bf8797835
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D61 9904 bytes