Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488e343b4422a3e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:11:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d43cbbab16b481e48401f98add720a3f SHA-1: a8164aa8e8f145b6c6a836689652c36cbc18851e SHA-256: 488e343b4422a3e403fc8f660b31698dd08580c9f278dacae3a5021b10942537
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on static.usrfiles.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. This indicates a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is weaponized for link distribution.

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=integer+problem+solving+activities
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8027/7406/files/metibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6289/4498/files/nba2k13_cheat_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2821/0073/files/62181198040.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f6f01d067cf54a63b6bc79927bb47493.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_d37d0f3fc7f441b591edd379bf920d6d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c98c319dd3274486bdf28506ffc0fbdc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b916f4_8816706ef4474d11a0fc571ea8d9055e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5b28038f6e324f08ac9bb13e15575be2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/24853a_3592adebd56b47798d42d032f270f653.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_30c621700f0e4c5eb2ff5d703deefa45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e8842bec2de24456a8403725306eee8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_25543622b9ae4d07bb1ea74336628cf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4d998_d6b2d5a662db4407b8a32a91c286d4cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/11f207_0f95d476301c45cfb72e360b79b2c38d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ab72e_63d6896d829a4a8cb91ad27eea33cc38.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_off00005850.bin
8f46d9c0b1700fcd3ef6fcb183fb320f5e297d204d0623c39ec77425f4f795b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5850 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000069c8.bin
5f17abc533c26f5a118eade73eec5fadd6bb36521eff527143025d20bbfd4dab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69C8 10236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008cbd.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CBD 4324 bytes