Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bbfdb1723085753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 01:01:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebdf837676604f8db471ef7024f34acb SHA-1: d771834e1eac6383c38cc7fe410c505e804b5579 SHA-256: 7bbfdb172308575390061a9a732ef53c98d75b5109768efc711cd366ce45eb76
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics, including PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicating it is designed to host a large number of external links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=on+intersectionality%253A+essential+writings', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and embedded URLs, further supporting the malicious intent.

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=on+intersectionality%253A+essential+writings
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e04cfbe82eb043ddbcb5868b31569016.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad9832d2efd24c09924b5cce1a436411.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_21d6ff3c49214fa6ac49425e5d180274.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7fb09465e844f60a5f78eeb576c7fdd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c1920bac43bc4cbc9166c3adc1abea13.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_189ad59eae1f4411ac9b7abda0c0600d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e7925511cda94b2ca2e78fdb48f63a16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86d72fb87252438da66d9ef3052ab444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bde988d0d7fc4f018f6aa7a32bdb3418.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4c9e523034c3444dafbdfb705f38b5ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3849cf880a9d411e869eb4303ccdca74.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e96e6d9c99754abbb5a9873e870e0959.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb83d719e33b44a686e30bb87ddaa843.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_12333d7671754cb5b0c789b58daf2eac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c064f48203fc4112bd9e96fab972b9f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aeb2c51e61864088a723f52a2f679481.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_off00004f4a.bin
b87987dc9662f9afd69c528bd9b4763a2387126ae5d7fe364e47b2b7be688c85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F4A 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006141.bin
a140b4ca7411a40b237af0d387085ea64d89d6cc351fa6ad50620e1f0e1ccb68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6141 10296 bytes