Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afdc80410fd8fcb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 13:06:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16570d3edcbdc4696d58cef2e7739ce4 SHA-1: 5f30de2aaf6abd20c05c815c7625e2c377d3af5e SHA-256: afdc80410fd8fcb8997c9f14fdc5b57b9c3d63d94b00bb19fe20f44f8ad4dfbd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=erd+case+study+examples+with+solutions+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to trick users into visiting this malicious site. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt.

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=erd+case+study+examples+with+solutions+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_382abbe480fc4d1691a043d002b1885d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eeb644a8260646139682e89063430a1d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_51fe41c0722f429dbb50cc7821b345d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6740bb7f8460431ab36f36b20bc4be53.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0826/files/95247903969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8962/9085/files/ejercicios_enlaces_quimicos_4_eso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3553/3218/files/test_psicologico_del_arbol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2074/6906/files/morulov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8864/files/dokekunasife.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_52ec838016c447a4950c447996aae5ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2bcb0b902e1a4dbcb0bfe0b9d88f5f2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c6913ae6bdec4ea0aebe9d4c3286ee4c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb33f4e8c93a45b0a8f7d5170809031b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b874d_90d3a713b0ad4dbeb5c5afed4edc8aea.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_off00008be8.bin
b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BE8 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000095e3.bin
d09c0d8ffb2b6dbd88f4d0383d40e50ee56e6a55fd354c400b4b1fbeef6bb04f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95E3 5612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8eb.bin
5386ad3fa36f3a956a63805e60832de58109578e4c516d25c3a3d2910c435a90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8EB 11332 bytes