Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52cff3e939d7c236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:48:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9809945ae83f769e4c7f1dfc87d2ee7 SHA-1: 61b1b20169a94cb7c007d83eaa10d3944aa84d28 SHA-256: 52cff3e939d7c2368feeb3a05273d4f791bf7e2d12ec10fdc950da13c2e82d27
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically identifies a link to `ttraff.ru` as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=assimil+ingles+pdf+google+drive+audi
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/158fb9_bfec35fb40444aef9b0ed51f69bf9444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aef5b7_d6055b765d6d47aca3803ae12579ab18.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b3c91d1cdd20489fab72408da3a639f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eafe849da0914da69c03effc17f8b20e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/guide_nutrition_sportive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7402/2550/files/practically_speaking_rothwell_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0804/9830/files/39072119184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5512/6430/files/abnormal_psychology_ann_m_kring.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000049d1.bin
3b292d52cd43ce786cf4d3a7cf7f199252c485c6bcc996a14cb8560b7a4527df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x49D1 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c1b.bin
a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C1B 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000064a8.bin
a4f451106be7ac3297496f282b13152ec986f2ccdf575bc172dd51ee4b3e6814
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A8 12992 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00008ce3.bin
e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CE3 16204 bytes