Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bd9ccf8047ac5c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e68fa8391f5bb64e488fedadf2136195 SHA-1: 35354a3dc8a365d4abb8006d3e8f27a8380bba76 SHA-256: 8bd9ccf8047ac5c96c3ec058fee3879fe2b116bf6f56f6a76a9667cdb2362bfc
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 used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to 'mechanical vibrations' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking and distribute malicious content.

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=mechanical+vibrations+rao+5th+editio
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d17db36ffd7a4e5c8cbb7c4f97faa918.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ab5ed_1980e1e16de04007aaeda411f15c6639.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a467d2_9c1cd79c960149058e0454418578b5d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15f326ea0ada4b75873805b2b7f733ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fbad77c40c464302a7f3396c96280163.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7306e_45a7260e86b3496d870f285d1feddb07.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1626/3592/files/88285386545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1952/5534/files/lerawuwokesipibeni.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3f4f84a6a05a415fadeb236f94690782.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_19bf628f17bd479e96ab3a433509fdc4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_04244193227144738393786ac1a82aa0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de84b0372ee94273bc50965e0f4c71ee.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_off0000629d.bin
ec9bddd7f6d83f1ead4f2254474d9938aab11baee6c43f60d6da06731b90def3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x629D 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074c8.bin
b2bce53ecae9cde290c451956f02810de74c6c08a752195066bcc7c754a1a6e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74C8 9732 bytes