Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2fe526bd0a8b6d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 14:05:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e3ea2d7e2b028bbc2aeaea36d6648d84 SHA-1: 3086967cf9e04fbf7b1d074ffafe96b8f64e479b SHA-256: d2fe526bd0a8b6d26170dcafe631a663413c5bb2e3eb8fae6616ce91997780bb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=difference+between+deductive+and+inductive+reasoning+with+examples'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

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=difference+between+deductive+and+inductive+reasoning+with+examples
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9616aa18dc914bb6bb01111b6d486959.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0de82c59e5914d0a97f4cb3f40464daf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_2c2ae41674244b05ae39ce7ca05e9f6e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_e650c4ebe15340e2aa01290e23b5625f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa0b8f7bc4ac4d178c722b033605f052.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee6770_bcbadf16043a48bcab8020caad1f6f51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82679c4eabfb46a6a021c3e3b9e10dbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59fa1813d14a48b384a6d51b8831d1e2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3fc21f_93ee62626dd04c85a66adb32ef6e87f8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5287/5432/files/40897374397.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2859/4336/files/email_templates_html_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9196/7652/files/85889599660.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_off00006472.bin
e806aaa5f8e16c13ab7e2cd1dedb430e92de7c4bac2e29d90e131db07ffd969c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6472 5928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000788f.bin
ef07504ca863651734be30588466a613e8e4a4cb00f592b0b6012177f691d8ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x788F 9972 bytes