Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 418ccb9752818a73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cc65d748d93b4150c04432808b630f7e SHA-1: 963718de96d0e711de2dffbbd039c6d3d18527b6 SHA-256: 418ccb9752818a73d4445614490e825395844636f31d039535c7ed9e21a18842
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying it as a redirector link to known malicious infrastructure. It also contains a link farm with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com. The embedded URL points to 'ttraff.ru', which is associated with malicious redirectors. The document body itself appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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+danish+girl+book+ending+explained
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_34146b85622e46a5aed24239f8c9cece.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa6f14_c0078e80be3340899b30916f467b96ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a771bd_26da524b02864c528d99f140d84328b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_93879a5317f44462a68c02a82ce7a5da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0e41bf04d25d40b1af3d2ff4f7f16f33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9374a7_c46513b87c194e34a8cca0f645f27d04.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_6fc1c89bd5e34615be41754b5cb7ca73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a016298cd264e08830d91a2ceb502ad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7654/0834/files/22559868259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2990/2998/files/6391714040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9229/6359/files/14298547461.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da597b5dc8d14027ba045ec08f63c16b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_0569756855214a3a8cbf170f87f4a31a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/277b62_57594098bf4040c0848906bad092a6e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_01c0d35c53b741568e686c0c6e08911c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_63d90ac156de4c11bdc0aa0bbbf60d20.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_off0000bfc7.bin
f7cda5c7c725c0a3015df95a7c8be91da8550f4dd5164291eb899199f2cf3d93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFC7 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d237.bin
201d3645b96f0b5c6439667f86f4b76f35cb70e5c8e4bde4015a5abb12a63d3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD237 10872 bytes