Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4afe15b079b2d2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 13:43:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a357143abbde1543eaca723048d4b7b SHA-1: 7a44b5e61f13d80526362da182318cdc7d294f86 SHA-256: a4afe15b079b2d2ce04c1f2e9a211639f0f9a95bba13bd61d66b110b544b90c0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=hikvision+2mp+camera+bullet, which is also listed as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=hikvision+2mp+camera+bullet
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e62dca9eb4164cc580e4e8856dd25dcd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de3d83_b97601ec44564ae29fe889df4ec946d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28a77f0aaf4a42bf9f922650f7f0fd43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e05996274a114557ba240fe8438ab133.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30e015_dc4238cecf09417d8d281c3a47644c73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_60f6ca8c0a3c476386ae334300d93b9f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c612aa6c3eb24ee98c48caaadba5c8bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f07a1_ac535bac2de349169e9a7efb48d3b9a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_c8d2a842dc924d6f958d53aaea745eef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7763/2161/files/breaststroke_swimming_technique_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3778/6266/files/congenital_syphilis_guideline__2558.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27482348981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1470/9402/files/66304378230.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004ca3.bin
1e0c3f5ae202785b31320f8b68d8992d8b7292761df944f7b063f30da5416932
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CA3 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e8d.bin
bb985df3a0c5b6a786b96973e614d6a930741907691053babc7eea7ee126de9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E8D 9712 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007fc7.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FC7 4324 bytes