Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acd80ae3f0ba0961…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:05:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f546d6f0214e8f6ee43b5f63cd4f526a SHA-1: 7f5f84dceaa886c5e64e438b338446b3377dd2ce SHA-256: acd80ae3f0ba0961641da06c88d17687ad2559cf20db1f7f89c9fa43928eba3d
152 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 deliver a secondary payload. The document body, though obfuscated, contains keywords related to a manual, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files.

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=eheim+2080+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9697dd7740e74475badebf05d2c73e82.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_799fc3ec7588419b9818c07b63ee78e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/09273f_8eee961bd87b422291bfedc9d918c6b4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6418/0390/files/11041443378.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nefodegaxinavikiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2136/8482/files/seamus_heaney_poems.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5149/1236/files/92213334492.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4025/files/zaduned.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/61180449324.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_378f41b42f414a37bd4cc1379b8527a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6846fe_8c76ed5da77e438ea749d84961606202.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/362633_26fec0a010584a45937c64527bd7a5c7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_f585955ecc634f81b075b92958caf5a3.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_off00005ad0.bin
0271b6929e8ef9d91cd7851f42fbc411bebe4ccb57ca20fc4d3c7fe17dfe43d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD0 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bef.bin
17ac21ddefc2f23b51775236b960b03e506f2aa9728e2cb20e3eb92014ae1508
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BEF 13592 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000971c.bin
da54e3a2643843d8c77a6ca7b6726fba74882f99cfd04e0a350263d2f50ca7f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x971C 16168 bytes