Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be346b98777a9e44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-09-01 01:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10c35cf315a70bb268faaca8c5e72c19 SHA-1: a2520f90ba0a7414d6d19eb78159d533c36fcb5a SHA-256: be346b98777a9e440783f3c5b43f50bafe89893c839bdd5b0306d576189a130c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution chain. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is the primary indicator of compromise.

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=msa+gage+r%2526+r+excel+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_9a5fe4c3698943ab955489ee5d0551ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0eb0e77a0ce34d7fbf99dfe246adae0b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/21e6f2_9642bbb27e594a878e2b6e6a508deabe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6984533caf8048dcbf6bf888b2e48f69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c032c_1641f65f81a64840be2e11af1870b3f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_6b3c0512fbc64959af5e2b2c22f5776a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ff21_7b71314021b54088a4f06043dd88348b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16d63047691748e19d09bcab43da2467.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2657/files/bokigixususoremasewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5794/6519/files/82637776088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/tusixulubukuvuzupete.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/kanukijuwibupeborijasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9577/7699/files/hidden_life_of_the_cell_answer_key.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_420a67fce55443d5ba27f979139bf2dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/95089d_dbb02961f2654303b5f4f99ca07e2984.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_off000076d0.bin
c2ded4aa92ed6416487197396b3dab36b06a9eef02b63fe4e1d671db2022e932
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76D0 4828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008754.bin
6e23d859ede302f40dc5470ab204b2e59a5ed4ecbe2ca567627408da1cd6f509
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8754 10524 bytes