Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4150ece80cf4c649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d28f3df4c4d67e6257ea975dd14e171f SHA-1: 83db4bca9862aaf15b19cdffea6447089650126a SHA-256: 4150ece80cf4c649a11b15cf5f85ea247e88b21cf0b1acf4edc879d269bb0944
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references a book title, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded malicious URL are sufficient for this assessment.

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=la+magia+del+orden+libro
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c9e49ccab4d2473b92c51524267b7cea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b3bc21_ed369d296361486a9e26a5d1f952595e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e6083_b55d4f944e324081a01139f2f394bb73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/930050_347468c01c2142e8b7d256d9c08e142c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ecadc_b48e525c7c3f43bcbe8eb46a0f6b2b59.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/158fb9_1cf52493358a421b9ccb1d469c685d54.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2c1ddc8e80634a4fa6a2434d40bb80bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_efc6fe953ec6424396a962789aae88c5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5016/2583/files/26016460133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0629/5196/files/mercruiser_350_mag_mpi_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7441/0910/files/ribamufevude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5665/9617/files/dujusodexizute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0848/2724/files/25328193532.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_off0000696a.bin
f56b6c273ad9c2a672db46a407b20b674cf64c68fa8bda7fa1bb5a1b69a59546
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x696A 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a78.bin
e3f0ada17958191de1542d1032376b6d47dcb756ffe20a5faa4813eb2ad118b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A78 11220 bytes