Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 990c0549622f0416…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ab6378c9b4f635b5a394e1b82da2b10a SHA-1: 1473ba247720025a2fd68fa6545eb115f89d8763 SHA-256: 990c0549622f041663f044cb1a7dee9b7c2c26e58963889e39ec25fe8d6ae277
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a link to a book about Microsoft Azure administration. This suggests a social engineering attack aimed at directing users to malicious infrastructure. The file also contains a large number of links to other PDFs, indicating a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and the lure content strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=az-+103+microsoft+azure+administrator+book+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_2ebc23e2086847d98da73aed7794ff00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6696f1346f22413383b16c2a7a2f1f91.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ff21_3fb737fd875e41a8b272000882544f54.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e32663d164b94940a19c6eeb3fa24506.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/24853a_a4403339fd014b4ba85c46c9fbcae623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7128/3098/files/xefipotozenejexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1751/9772/files/demande_aide_logement_caf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/28821374719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3544/3875/files/da_638.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5012/3932/files/satzo_password_hacking_software_free_download.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cd3aae89f2d34463b24acea7a33b7b5b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0adedf_e9b210cdd0484f2e9534bc3b9a50f079.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1ee69b_b3a1a1b48a8e4643a6cfaa0d62ff780f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5727/4270/files/pexanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/1793003708.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005959.bin
9548727222c21feedec7ba034d6d43a60bf0c675a334a6477c57cac904751016
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5959 5784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cf1.bin
e2ab622549a1ba8ea3a595db544d5c7479cfd0a7810cf4f65d857fe5d6da59c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF1 10084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008f79.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F79 4324 bytes