Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5d2849ac5b5c9f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 06:47:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c7427548db0d5742de4c0b82a16e8520 SHA-1: 90c5877045fa078ed0a5207639584b48955e6bcc SHA-256: d5d2849ac5b5c9f76c3d37d0d3718b186b16e39b62278e4647a8fe8eddcd78d2
152 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 designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to broaden the reach of the 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=lord+of+the+rings%253A+conquest
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4725f1_66658b27cc524228b6da0e9d69f0b9bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1b8612_b4009943aae640e1abc79c276a77acb1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97493d_fad2367237854918a13e2d3303f8ab32.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4a001_7fddc1b4ae41460aa0733719d8abe6cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_89ad23fa5c5d4c0ca8e745aeb109c8d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cbdbb6_a8a8304ee4b0460bb79c06acd12b93e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_0103635450e44251812dea3ef59455d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_818f73a426f04aa081b6d23bdc643e85.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a2e4_66053e78da884611b58ac369463ba1d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/906e9f_e4e7f691d7da45afad8976faf61900ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d424ac2844b1474390a801dd8b290f2a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7ed05_ceebc63c88444a1a8414485dce58f1f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_48aad82aea9f4dc9ae1c5ac7a2329b86.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4a001_7fddc1

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000919f.bin
c2bf01c24023a58109ab88a02cc802a7b7211602a05429b436bf23b8c0b53bb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x919F 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a32a.bin
748da21825e2452adae5cc9b246e5c2d13a5abcd32a863d1c7e62c8f118a0682
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA32A 10332 bytes