Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8111d1b454e8acb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca4a4c201823705937dba00bd7cf32af SHA-1: 7a2a019dfcb4f12e10dffabf7406e12ad584fca4 SHA-256: a8111d1b454e8acbf305438324973fa6901799bc037a4d7799bb101927227c93
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a critical heuristic due to its extensive use of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files. One critical heuristic specifically identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=angle+measure+to+decimal+degree+form+calculator', which is likely used to redirect users to malicious content or for SEO manipulation.

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/pify?keyword=angle+measure+to+decimal+degree+form+calculator
    • http://files.minnesotadivingacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438056/widajazuw-wovof-rutiso.pdf
    • http://files.katiegage.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740384/2287363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0870/4164/files/lejufutokolok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4229/2390/files/10306274149.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0771/2155/files/no_man_s_sky_ionized_cobalt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0727/8238/files/animal_magnetism_osrs_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0831/9907/files/38626500115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5622/5688/files/kasafipabirir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1758/5308/files/42033424927.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6987/files/cluster_type_headache_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1955/0370/files/9593194505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2656/9633/files/subewusorelamawuxamix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4996/5985/files/14430461031.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8926/4794/files/jarowe.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_off000054c7.bin
089054b63dc0e1c5f60686cd497cca09ef8e00b953a47f5c65b4903fbdd99d96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54C7 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066c8.bin
7ebb34b7cced192ebb042c39fbc1e84adae3bb6204e42bf4d867620ea74a0276
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C8 13192 bytes