Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0f7a1dfa51a876d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 20:39:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: df30aa02acbb7084a552a1ae62d3d8b2 SHA-1: 19c9180f080db6b960b52ba165748f11f112b26c SHA-256: e0f7a1dfa51a876d28eb2166fa33842b6d8134c56c16077fbee3f7af81d4c34e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=westworld+original+soundtrack, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting a lure related to the 'Westworld' soundtrack. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=westworld+original+soundtrack
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/viruzofebedatajubapovuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1384/files/one_sheet_pan_meals_salmon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/wasibul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4460/9943/files/bipufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5637/6480/files/frmacos_anticoagulantes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8858/4605/files/why_does_facebook_marketplace_have_hidden_information.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f96b02_845e5bfe08d644dca9e94ca6de7cd0c7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf650e_61e5adad98a04e3fba940f70b6ae0775.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ade4e6_f737d0afd1e0415885a6cc22ef7e61a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f88d_3b742b18c6ba41b7a37582c511fb9ef0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c345b0_4dad720ddcf04f3eb2f971c5fed64a46.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5415a_304f00653d954abfae27559ff60d2940.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_off00007050.bin
13a8e3d35b368ad3b88e4738d276fe7909703954b7405983a9f0462dcc38618d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7050 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008268.bin
2a21249808cc3649303b9a91cd37a04ec16d0af9fa1243b4566a6436ff606540
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8268 10976 bytes