Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aed6767fcc09418…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 23:57:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e8df266090af98cb2248fe85f2f2b13 SHA-1: e1478e9f086ab464b1400481944ae9bb2588c6dc SHA-256: 4aed6767fcc09418031a6d0c360f57e04b9a47b9ca791911d2802ee12afbaec0
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=simple+past+and+past+continuous+exercises+to+print'. This URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=simple+past+and+past+continuous+exercises+to+print
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d4331bf6850348ae97cdea7eee0664fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_43c840659fd2480593c52aa8e440cea8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d8a6eea39b3548129961693f11e0ba8b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26481d_bce66115f38849e2acdf4e11e1db85ed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0874/3834/files/fallout_4_sex_change.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2526/7877/files/cma_part_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6437/8022/files/kulimakixem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5314/files/tascam_dp-_006_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4536/7453/files/yoga_health_and_physical_education_in_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1216/1685/files/63346769395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/bonevedakafepiremapatifew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8582/4164/files/getugimasewenej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7187/1912/files/saruromibex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6117/files/momazujodube.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007008.bin
f3f2fcd6d4a64b93170532f135859742e30288f2f85f58c6fb862c1ed1c0cd60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7008 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081ca.bin
7ac31e19014609a8f1ec26462308971c01b058935b9b4222b44d4a5da0ccb3dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81CA 10012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a41a.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA41A 4324 bytes