Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40166cbab78a0382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 13:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0dc38c2228a9cdc3b9838b14b1fc9083 SHA-1: a93fa3e31aae9d1759a563f8aca3986d0be92331 SHA-256: 40166cbab78a038277e0c28c580cb925177f3a74340be5916550514154776b59
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=the+black+woman%2527s+guide+to+understan', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to what appears to be a link farm. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links within the PDF.

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=the+black+woman%2527s+guide+to+understan
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/be19e1_77128cd29371498da873b0b8125f9213.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf5208196d7941bab4c767336e1eadb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d9a50_28ad464944f2462a89690bd708bfb89a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c4ccc4_3bc6daf2ede4410ba4bb1587e768438d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6575/3241/files/makkar_ielts_speaking_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4191/5042/files/114576933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5581/6599/files/jupusorowunuxetezasadeta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6545/9366/files/29896216582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/9363/1652/files/munev.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eed56f_d62860ccfe804b2b8560fdbcacfa03f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_3aa8c9f5d2914d7d8fc6aeea1858ae4a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f2646_5f98805cb5a6438ba3190b66f626547f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_529d2f0bda884343b7d201b1744eb10a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/299074_b791e08644bc47b7a63a7ccb62ae635e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b9a42f47445e48849989b37a702e4ada.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_off000062b4.bin
fc9e6c5eb6c31e78e3580faaaea3692e8e75819a527d7d0ed2b3b079cb7686fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62B4 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075c3.bin
6947bfefca6e7053f0b84969f04e89b4641ac7507ea783c0574b212fd318635b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75C3 11008 bytes