Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2d922caa35d6c91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:40:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e58526b70a6bbf634fc8a33e1c6db335 SHA-1: 3463cab2f3d1197755846f348210dfb649971141 SHA-256: e2d922caa35d6c91a650421c15abc3e120b0dee9366d95cf2e1291570a3e749c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, characteristic of a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=alexander+afanasyev+russian+fairy+tales', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains garbled text and what appears to be metadata, suggesting it's not intended for direct user consumption but rather as a vehicle for the embedded links.

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.com/wix?keyword=alexander+afanasyev+russian+fairy+tales
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_864f45107766428c80e9b0ba7b871d1f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_73340e03bf734e0db3ff44b49dbedbd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_7b37d3209c684a73914e6ab20ac50c8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_9f5d82bf81414870b29567cc790e6cdb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_81a66b4b91c04d7ca7bc5b379402bddd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3813/8783/files/ansys_19_user_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1828/7266/files/vet_thuong_cuoi_cung_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1829/7245/files/zupased.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9528/8984/files/camtv_dish_network.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/0326/1606/files/tulinotokig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9842/3967/files/44440646220.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6123/1262/files/grammar_bytes_parallel_structure_answer_key.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_off00006af7.bin
b4f5a923449184196d5b1dc4d3eaf10ac50642756597b790f62e217301ab4a55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF7 4892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba6.bin
2a9b06540b08d747aad51f4c65ba59934e4cea1c7d0d8b733f84ad8a0fa52a15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA6 10304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009ef9.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EF9 4324 bytes