Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2549e6f8aba5ceb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:12:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30fb691717a1435496c7814e0926ecf0 SHA-1: a605fdbfaa6855cc1bbf94c9c38f367a2a7c6c2f SHA-256: 2549e6f8aba5ceb93a17d6e8c00520d6a72d5adad8106d0cbb473fcd9c65eef6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on static.usrfiles.com, forming a link farm. One of these links, https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=stewart+copeland+ride+cymbal, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be corrupted or heavily encoded, preventing a clear understanding of its lure, but the link farm and redirector are strong indicators of malicious intent, likely to lead the user to further malicious content.

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=stewart+copeland+ride+cymbal
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1a89c8_b7c8153e6d3c4a75853397bdbc14b94a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4cb3ad1242f04be28a2eabfdc0afa6fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9374a7_44b0f4fe2a4a472cbeafa7d6bc7f292a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4da64_96b18813ecf640769468ef819b731da7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e9550f5ebfc54c1f9895287dfe1b2dab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1849a1_7a7d9f82c181478abfd5f0f2a02f673a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15ebe2_70c5b69bf1bc40b5b04fb0e7e080161c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7197/7110/files/traducteur_anglais_franais_en_ligne_gratuit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4311/files/7974664308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/8789/9297/files/filing_a_police_report_san_francisco.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0222/5059/files/63009165208.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6853/7497/files/decisional_balance_worksheet_ace.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8149/6744/files/82211149446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9509/2376/files/san_diego_marine_forecast.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_off00004358.bin
4c239133142d1264671d6cbe3c85750619fc6a9e10b5ee2652c4d34d37900a66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4358 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055e9.bin
125cf83b754c2fa1d84aaa03059c37576b52c79a1bc0a1d5604eee3f84ef2799
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55E9 9392 bytes