Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d80542bd79986e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:15:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cfef48ea37e0d57436d2b0b5092ebff2 SHA-1: c272f3bf1d66eb30b3ad9d6f272544c320b7c7f1 SHA-256: 41d80542bd79986ed13742b452eabd7e6a7275ca671dd28177489f602e6bbe96
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a direct link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru, and also hosts a large number of other PDF files on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or content distribution network for malicious purposes. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself points to malicious redirection and link farming.

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=heather+reynolds+new+jersey
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_036db02bc422467186fbecd96ec403d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_440639ac48aa415889b8eed6d5e7fc38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8f270386712642d7ab246af03b1606e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf79db_b55f98ec204742d3b5d938e49598e429.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a382ee_a93993ba72e94e8d999e1f8b27cb245b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb6612_6d24add3297d43f094282d1580046642.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b48b60_5f877377da0a4a3abf30fa8bdda93a05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73f3b0_bef37fa5e58c45ffae34033ee5247d96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_3459729eab064292bdd70fa4a7c3f0f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5be868_c1f622ec825f475f942605a6ef011c31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79e0dc_dbf2de995be2404895bf39694c051767.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e2875_fec7718f3c684ac18100e1280134784c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/529dbf_964da532af404702835c440a190adc2b.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005dcd.bin
7fdb72a87b7bc6ad2e61dc8409b05dce78173f39cf47fce5a2bdb6439437b663
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DCD 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f50.bin
97771a71b79ff3e10bfa42ff29f89cae3f56e1bafe721d6114901668084ae6be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F50 4900 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000080d0.bin
f9a3432f6b2b8d2b3ad13c1efdcc56c8d9a606ed48b6172d01a8313e4ef8dd4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80D0 10636 bytes