Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4701331cdc5efb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.1 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:06:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10b5a34a97a8a2f0b664eadbf4f16873 SHA-1: 756aae58545cbb4113282451319af7e6f063acd8 SHA-256: a4701331cdc5efb1437fd5245afa23dd6a50f7719367a5ee3081b2b94f9ada1e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=aromatic+compounds+reactions+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=aromatic+compounds+reactions+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d6844_537ce826fd464465b285467646eb0f80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a771bd_1b4b14c43b8d4ebab96db4a9512c7d3f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10e3af_100071eb8a584172b9597190757ad2d6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6495/8879/files/37564385795.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5943/7975/files/kesidifepat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7701/8524/files/rowafedepebozugix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0911/3242/files/gijezizotewo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26481d_60de375c0e5c4249a719e1d29a95f8b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a49289018dd84a7f88afcfbded0bdc9e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_9f304141c2c145a08a175763a6f2ea3f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc089a_a2d6f70782c24cbdb48e4b09c6f675fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/824332_a32ee1f551ac49e197b49d96dfdd35b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e0eb0_e8f0fd92c5ff4585848ff6271508ed72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_2d37ada826da4772b0d9618c8c0481da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c032c_2c43df0a60e34e7494251bd36263daf3.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_off00008f62.bin
a6f187bd481f3243b6c015af146266c5af85db2ce4db1a21499e9d9c0444f49a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F62 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a12a.bin
200e3efee0cc0bce4767ad3f390ecbcc1e24182f8edcce9fd1dc323c0aeb08f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA12A 10020 bytes