Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 313539d463ed9a22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:28:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a8d81f6e1520c613e19c905fb4c84bf0 SHA-1: f7f3ad5ba39d2afb713b49640860af35d3ae59da SHA-256: 313539d463ed9a225e9a85d86e9b3333e435d970c98033415510abe7c9199e9f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=%25D8%25AC%25D8%25AF%25D9%2588%25D9%2584+%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25AF%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D9%258A+%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25A3%25D9%2585%25D8%25B1%25D9%258A%25D9%2583%25D9%258A'. Additionally, the PDF was flagged for containing a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, so the rationale is based on the link analysis.

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=%25D8%25AC%25D8%25AF%25D9%2588%25D9%2584+%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25AF%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D9%258A+%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25A3%25D9%2585%25D8%25B1%25D9%258A%25D9%2583%25D9%258A
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_4318d961990c44ea9540783886ca5e2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_68e2dc9261bb40a9a60e40b5ca68ed52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_82fe89e587aa4d2e9605840e3296e0a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_8e1c526ad7654c16b2d80eb7fec2f148.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_900432f556954b6da27b597810506e58.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7234/7550/files/wejidat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6517/2387/files/third_law_of_thermodynamics_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39858795743.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2e9be0217a2c438ca5ca0ecfe9722218.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aaf9192b759d4957b97fc0fac42a4e34.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/49be48_1b389ee70ddf42f3a20f2aa601f12e7a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e87bf_2b4aab8db858407498be06490f7111eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1bead4e9c68543a59eed809cbc10e605.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off000098fb.bin
8986fb12dce5837bc84837f5378c3128f53cad3504dbb279baf377b6116d42fa
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x98FB 26964 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00005228.bin
0839d7670eb8be446f52832e8c720d0f625510ceeadeab5b1dd4203940110fb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5228 4068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006006.bin
541ecea5bc5fa68f20cfdbad15d58737f9c1e506d2abf3e3fa55e93fa375d05b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6006 17748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007b24.bin
903547844575f4eb85fb1027f3df54210ce53956085ac27a90d671caacc5a512
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B24 8736 bytes