Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f00eba7de4daa5ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-09-04 03:43:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d484e5b853ea463eb6877c0b816ed2a1 SHA-1: a4b8456465e9e6eb7d21099efc6a7d4e9ff79b35 SHA-256: f00eba7de4daa5accb296831d30d1006bc1593b4ba43ba3df70d9e2e736f08e7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=nursing+ethical+dilemma+with+using+informatics+technology' leads to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests the document is part of a link farm, likely intended to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=nursing+ethical+dilemma+with+using+informatics+technology
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_f5cd6ddf38a54215bd929f9be05ed4d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_164b2083a698435fbebc4ebf7270f509.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a2546309d7804e758f46913a9e004d56.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98857b_43b0f420ff7a428d91ad1729bb10cfa2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d216cb_9c393cd006e346ef8f47698c077f200f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9897/1038/files/61329472474.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/3682/9854/files/beauty_and_the_beast_piano_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/7004/7654/files/wogaxuzuduxijera.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0130/6526/files/agricultural_economics_and_extension.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6984/9248/files/call_of_duty_free_for_macbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4760/0796/files/25893023117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7074/8827/files/acdsee_pro_6_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7228/2008/files/dinegoxifagevowokixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9502/3013/files/sports_vocabulary_ielts.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_off000073b5.bin
a4c1d060cf1d5f4f5e91b21d95e131627170144fd00a5ed3edeb77308872f10d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B5 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086b9.bin
3da1e63d6ad9355c4d214d0d6024c7e30c8b228d0d00c9823a0d7abceb4b972f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86B9 9724 bytes