Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59b85a06e4968517…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 00:25:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e174115e7197611d670fd0b1342a0f0a SHA-1: b8e14cca74974b832bc154e9b47acf983f8b30c2 SHA-256: 59b85a06e4968517b439aba7fa672702eab918be88db71ebd4e81e04d30a3940
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=conan+exiles+smelter+thrall
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_7688c5a35c734ee5bd30bf50218ee41a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6d59ab_6b2e0230c6c4424a80b45c4cafc59162.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a6276d66f8341b9a030b75f3b7c5ef1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_ad9d9718555d4eb7afeba181fa2b1e11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_bfd95cfa28cc4921b64b5c4de33ef123.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa6f14_f4f01d38e58e48c0812fe685fb5d961d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4c38232bcb744ef8919d9fbf7e0ddbee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_012eaa64d26d44bcacde788e94d234b1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_facd8f0f98a144e2b13d908f4d4011ff.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/4186/6137/files/pandora_media_annual_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1760/0152/files/towabawasapaxelibetasul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1473/1429/files/beautiful_flowers_hd_pics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2355/7030/files/lowemebasidakubemef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1139/0115/files/kekade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/0349/5836/files/bellavista_ventilator_user_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6980/9564/files/ginudareweduvolewu.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_off00008226.bin
5e5c3ec1beaef1567e10a471776a6f1d1fbd619ec0abe61b1c51344b7af3c2be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8226 4900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000929c.bin
175fe62f0ea5342cc02421ab0d6c690b2d3d44f2bdb55ce63f3e6c4f9c9af669
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x929C 15888 bytes