Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd5bea3d76885d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 04:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a07510dfca23d6c93010ac77b8db712 SHA-1: e9a8bd5c84b3c07c06ab630e36983f82e7137961 SHA-256: cd5bea3d76885d801168100334b760a8e87e1f8ab3a8fb45e2c2b69595cca1c4
154 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 likely used to host or deliver further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to benign-looking files on static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine visibility for malicious 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=vocabulary+for+college+bound+students+pdf+free+download
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8802e6d6dfc24d6abd5ed5a757618d64.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19103d_c17d4a43f8414a88ad1a2f1d7c8ef5bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b53e9525bd1749be8c2034ce0e38c3fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7d0a4264b1b4400e996c6dcdbdfc7837.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a7318f5f86d74ce6b90b071dcefc3fb6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8948/4190/files/wave_equation_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6661/2130/files/miromanurinaxifofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9603/8812/files/28119441291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3665/5259/files/avast_free_antivirus_software_for_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5113/8715/files/99084256487.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28fac90fa32549fab076ee66f0d9fae5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c39cca5ea2a2450da83b26da7ed0ae21.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ec29b_5194f7217ccc49f9a54f32440ec80c3a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0452/files/52931884982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53059057271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1421/8143/files/69151763372.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_off000048ea.bin
ce1ce91439556433c1cd7c691113461e93fc4fad7bcecaafdbdfdcd223a6ebf1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48EA 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c28.bin
173ee66203d36d49bcf3c407afd8e29db339c7f670e67444f6f792ef077b1490
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C28 10180 bytes