Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bffeb685d58570f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ab0d10f3339f34eaaf06c885f0b40aff SHA-1: 914907c330089265b6f10a718c3c6b1ea50cb4c1 SHA-256: bffeb685d58570f2d2ca6f720c452de05ba0efee8ae56898ed93e8bfe75853a6
150 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 disguised with a search query related to 'lesson 10 congruent triangles unit test answers'. The document also functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous other PDFs hosted on static.usrfiles.com and cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=lesson+10+congruent+triangles+unit+test+answers
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9904c2_c8490d1ccd794159a72ee781543bf8a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c345b0_a8ffb6b2c8044abd92eed0440c493555.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/299074_b68fb3d0ef6e4244b52259c68aaeb0e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf659a71aaa34ad3a48213a523a3f530.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c7c49_0e8fdd601ac64c9fad955acb832b7897.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4352/0665/files/20517698159.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2127/files/83195799746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0012/6885/files/jizuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/medical_cases_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2729/2582/files/amnsie_globale_transitoire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/19154587182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8381/7375/files/bcbs_auc_appeal_form.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_356757b73cb642b19deb0bff8ac64bd6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_ba154473300743f58ba9d4c4d81a6eda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_d2b0b3d93d594e4da202a9243e4a116e.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_off00006452.bin
cdcf8c8a700c267c4339b272b464e54ae82f38909b439a7e2e4b4e731f8a62e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6452 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007625.bin
63d5f453cde67651ca0daf836a4913c0ae4d28a6ae331e0816172cc3600d501c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7625 10540 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000099f2.bin
2cc36779403287548c184605c5d9ac9f8e39fd5c9622849292a4135ce18498ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99F2 16208 bytes