Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdd895502bd3215e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:25:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f09c5b41441365c2ade285b0f76e32d9 SHA-1: 7aa6022af2b569185325f0e4e7ca245b75a4e50a SHA-256: cdd895502bd3215e91b36508585754d3c389a7f7a176dcf8eb5bd7d965adbca5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and keywords suggesting a lure for users interested in Excel VBA programming. This indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=excel+vba+programming+for+dummies
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0202632f4e124db693db91f62f856c52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7e02755ea7f64cb2ba3cd4a7f15fa134.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8e8dc1c3d41843349c66fd4d5ca0aa5b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c61a0aee4fac4d42a7e57be25f962646.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4a625bdb0bbc4245b356fa1e0d79689b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8318da0f91d143988cc5807b447c2c30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_54b7dcf7a2be4aa09672ee1cf0f27ae1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fd3aa7ddd1d54a7f93fccc8d5cfc3341.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5497/9477/files/volapizelomebevive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3505/7559/files/sirs_dan_sepsis_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9806/2501/files/67615865747.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuvekalododit.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_off00005c45.bin
bee9488d698d27d1b7eb453df576a99ef4e06c83b5c0ea5951cbcd7ec8c80d2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C45 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f97.bin
b7914b5f4d1bdc194cac58aae96e860b2531907ded39f7baf2035d6c9bc0d74c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F97 9932 bytes