Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc5bb33c5b4e3382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2020-09-07 20:58:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d15fd28d34dfb7f5b1be425fde39b4e3 SHA-1: 3caf626cff78827f8dd4161e98b597f53d12bc5b SHA-256: bc5bb33c5b4e3382b6fb483e781385ad0e8415fd3b0a68aef7ee3455987dc2ae
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting a deliberate attempt to trick the user into clicking it. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and driving traffic to malicious sites.

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=seronegative+spondyloarthritis+guidelines
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8e66a5_9f6bdcd831d546f0b260e32d2ad51f1a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c81504_873c2b46969b4e85a58e4cd54c5f264b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/590778_485aa1fc50744289bd34e2ee1b09220f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_b7f225b77a094287a32ede84f1c974d0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8200/6171/files/11001439155.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8973/0472/files/24307036056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2163/7544/files/wepilebixapejetoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1279/2221/files/standard_definition_tv.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/868401_239faefd9c62414abd09ca9c6450512d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6a7407_8ca97cce7b934d70a27175977508eede.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_d3e2db78364f4c76abe30096141b16ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c4f63d_84330f3cb84c446fb5f1cc95f3b4bfc0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0779a3_90575c2fa3064e23a5d78034775db9c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1a791_4df576ed6f454eb6bd238e7244d59d9d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/585b1d_cb50c2fcbfb847b4b0e73f9e2e4d3164.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1c05f_5469001d52de44ebacbb8ddcca514453.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_off00014861.bin
842005cc26d7f6ed8edc5a4d652a3e678ef31f6c07635f62aeccc3c51adb88d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14861 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015b0c.bin
805bf1dc967b128c6a06e09bcc805e6b7771e3723e76d14fb048f7b11ccb902e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B0C 12544 bytes