Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbe1072a0adf4979…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:05:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e26edb863b4010918e0ef0ef6ba76880 SHA-1: b9990c2f3c0207dfcf512aeddd70a31ee7cc4242 SHA-256: cbe1072a0adf4979103145218c3706992e6885509bfc935fe0b85690245a9442
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=the+forgotten+promise+sherry+wilde+p, which is identified as a malicious redirector. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious activity appears to be the redirection to a harmful external resource.

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=the+forgotten+promise+sherry+wilde+p
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0df0ede68d24257857ef5e4911b38e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_fc58a2b2afbd4e2591571e85f6288668.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a467d2_83ecdccc61054d7c8b2b02fc09d3ac8b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dad90e_3f9055c228ac43a8b52c658def29bd27.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6599/7472/files/download_biochemistry_satyanarayana_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0827/8171/files/73726312717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6929/3215/files/logical_maths_questions_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7243/7910/files/26798459258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0163/4201/files/wedupatelefapizud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9805/4558/files/zavovizogixikapaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0084/5720/files/pivoroworiduxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7339/7145/files/54873247020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8903/4402/files/skyrim_werewolf_hentai.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4513/3207/files/grand_babylon_hotel.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_off00006750.bin
99630fa7d5c4341bca244b74e8c189a4e14e29f4c01097420763944d8a163297
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6750 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007995.bin
48d91a43e7abd0ecaa0c16618169e0f3d0127b64d795e0ac96cb9c315a96a9e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7995 10068 bytes