Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb7c6d6ba0c78544…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 01:07:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8591bc5d448b6f63097c715f1aafadc SHA-1: ae45799f7be5d32de38d5586e7ea026597e6b0d0 SHA-256: cb7c6d6ba0c7854443639121266d5e33460954f85bfdadf50c5d98ac83438aca
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, a technique often used in SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=possessive+pronouns+practice+esl', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large link farm and a malicious redirector strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to harmful content.

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=possessive+pronouns+practice+esl
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a21f28d8f01041dbaa3e5affb1b8db98.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb7f2479483b46509ae1b8bf42284415.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d3c1d65ba4fa411aa6448037372a4910.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6580a7c862b0427c98b99a42a432d154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7758/9399/files/73511772733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/battery_capacity_tester.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7376/3496/files/after_effects_templates_intro_logo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/4022/3911/files/pdf_candy_desktop_pro_review.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6778/files/minecraft_rf_to_fe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0903/2863/files/lords_of_the_fallen_strategy_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0192/7064/files/tijomukupi.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5b0f340cbc6d40aa8891f4a2860b948b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2fa5e19c3e874ab1a8b08aba72e3ba99.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_964c2ae144f34a40bc95ae92fd1534ee.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_off00005b2e.bin
73f2393dba173fad0ee72b4e1a837758355674e4918b925481e776d35dd3e3ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B2E 4988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c3c.bin
046f03cf4c414a4b9a653c5691f658a804104e4831c15633c3945de3dc7071e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C3C 10068 bytes