Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fccd55dbe65942d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 15:31:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd770c5c2f0a9fa5687d3d6abd9bd97e SHA-1: 71f881cc9c6cac0ffd111157947e870f919157d5 SHA-256: 3fccd55dbe65942deefae2aa1f7b9631f29a4e00b872e816ef0a203d935048ff
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=cognitive+psychology+and+its+implica'. This indicates the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious infrastructure. 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=cognitive+psychology+and+its+implica
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dca6ca4fdd294ad1afac36aad4b7c27e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b444d4_ce031331f6e94ebb8dda8bf081ccabc9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5aed9_98a1b57e5e464e588d6e161834115545.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7561fce18c124605ba7d43927f70ad2c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0f4d587ac53d4842a8a9de53f98e2172.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_27b7198306ba4d5b884ecc6602194a77.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2853/6734/files/38861373585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0188/8416/files/20156401300.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/36f25b_2644f67ab96e4bb1b0cc61708b7a71dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2543ab1ed7d14a999ebfdb3c54418f23.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b7290_d2791b7562d24509869f068c03d26945.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_8bad8486861242b190bbb28085be6e4a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c89470390f64abf9e233ce32c306a4c.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_off00005e42.bin
d9aa464122c8042fed73a659f3ebd187463acea81446d4745deab694d0b27e0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E42 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070c2.bin
8b6d922f77e1ce83773a9571f79845ac8bc7dbf2cbfd17098ad3217f7456e5f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70C2 9928 bytes