Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ef0673a29529673…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 13:09:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c196fff21bcfd36e2b4a85e115d08dc7 SHA-1: 8c8e53998a09d2b8c27cea55f5ff378a5cf9dd42 SHA-256: 1ef0673a29529673bae49f46b7567e4cecb9cf08eadcb6555eb6d364cb170ecc
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a search result for a washing machine manual. This indicates a social engineering lure to direct users to malicious content. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious URL embedded within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=whirlpool+cabrio+top+load+washer+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ed65bc8767a9478181d30ce0d073edcc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a869920c2be9433d96f3d89cfd14d061.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e1f893424f6f45a6bf6d60411436a869.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b2801f4ef954e06afde1a49b0f6e3d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b9dcbb7440464f94805d8184ef6f772f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1921/4756/files/mifaxitubagabupugef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7539/4977/files/foxfi_full_version.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9765/7248/files/spectrum_dns_servers.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_17533c3230964082bba0a1d4f4ede558.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_238fe2c795e64b48baa5d4ff625dc7e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cad9da7fa409402b9399a38ecaa6359b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_07f1833272384d079acb5395a7a114ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a2298079133140999817f0eb7840f75a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8e7c60119e7a47c4bb0677d44fedcb88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_44b0347737ab4394b3e02defa38c2303.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_448ec3f79e474b6ca43ac27f3f374d1f.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_off000065b7.bin
a3c9789530f04829ac7ff7764b0e14cfa08a55df91d7f6b4853b9b6cae448942
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B7 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000787d.bin
6b0e35eefd39d77f2d7ef55d8fe30d7eda55841fdfc9e9e50ea4ec024903addc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787D 10192 bytes