Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf20df38d220a76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2020-09-06 19:51:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d91fb63cf662bf77f634fb77dee82ecc SHA-1: b2e65807083337814c98cbcdf30d93adf878e0d8 SHA-256: 9cf20df38d220a76c5fb0feee0e274dd206c957253953e414097afda147033a9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, with one prominently pointing to 'ttraff.ru', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes the same URL, suggesting a deliberate attempt to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous external PDF links also indicates a potential SEO poisoning or link farm tactic.

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=pathogenesis+of+pulmonary+tuberculosis+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6911/0432/files/wuvumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6449/9880/files/informant_meaning_in_spanish.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4295/5676/files/sansui_tv_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a11b0_f6f637c8bf5e408aa96a5ee3222ea285.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19ce5d_e02ea647ddf545478677c1250078090e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/956c05_42783fbfbf2647fcb210905566ff6c80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/717a42_5fa3ea57d4d34ff088c9ce62cb995af7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d46c2_b8eec293847e4c249c258c2abb7e41e5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2683/0744/files/tifulojesezaxuzup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6515/4463/files/yesterday_once_more_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1535/6067/files/56003349199.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ab01781d3474c49a422571828fbf4a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea2f88_c64f891c349744b994737ac4fad699ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/43d598_f6cc46a14866416390470df8907c9aaa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ec29b_4a2af3e1a49e4ddcbd02f033758f5beb.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_off0000f84c.bin
587c266154e85d48854565fab6587980c76a8a7221ab97f5d60a960903df2c95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84C 5812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010bf6.bin
bc2975b7010e9cacfc324098b77238679b14f92ccf3559ad2fcffbc97dba623b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF6 10484 bytes