Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a76a925a3678f7e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-29 23:03:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0b086f7794ec57e60daf50af738b919 SHA-1: 410f58d972c8c33ae0200539ccbc1245c6136a26 SHA-256: a76a925a3678f7e09c35f24e7e372931a0fb4e3e752e592e62e907738212e34f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=list+of+acidic+vs+alkaline+foods, points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains the same URL, suggesting it is the primary 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=list+of+acidic+vs+alkaline+foods
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d8405a7a87514521a8b6e3a1fa891439.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b47cb_206f7b2c07ba44ab8f5ad4e1494691e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_41ac5ccd51e14f04a62e0b6039b684e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f8f0a6fa93dd4babb76a95e8490c82dd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4302/7106/files/acer_drivers_for_windows_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7840/9639/files/certificate_of_insurance_form_fs-_1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4890071b2bbf4314940612ace5b2b058.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a81ace8223e44e36bc80f160beee2555.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc5f17f1c9a64ac3bf44c0439541038a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e5d97_ce845800845d4e7383bcbcdbd65671ec.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5522/6773/files/piano_music_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5237/files/12962528888.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_off00006276.bin
d1dd010e62bb2ce8f7e51bc65d0ca2be5cb415f316cd60d6e47c8313258459b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6276 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007383.bin
27acc63913377bbc6f209f2f0dd4622b062d38b3253b4a8e7d96702e5e4b91e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7383 10176 bytes