Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d77b6e7704d26b9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1cd4fe646530762135b32b9c2201dfa6 SHA-1: f4bd0b80494925749a73c96976170808b7b1a842 SHA-256: d77b6e7704d26b9fc6680cc016b791faab1f50ebdeb0d2bd41fba82a236978e7
154 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 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=la+vie+en+rose+piano+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com', suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the malicious redirector is a clear indicator of malicious intent.

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=la+vie+en+rose+piano+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0aab01_5da3432fa7d24148bceffa2204d13709.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_9d72cc03143e4fcfabbf5976bd4940e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/865d50_83655d59b92b4e7590f476c72bc18190.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca32a8_2248362bc9f7448abcdab5b44a19e22b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_636df3f81567434b8f96819371890238.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ea145b9d95fa4104aaa97b7668ab9385.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1849a1_1e10a1a9ca3644bb8c8432a53d3f7888.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cb2bed_7feaa5efad4b41a3ad8371e090c90f02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7de91ee6400e4ae6a6f20299d784fb41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_a6ff371f9535473b8ce4586e6edb0994.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_f6c71451b8d44a51a4889dad24d87ff9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b914b5_a4ce5e3944754e9ba05cc9b1b0dae78d.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_off0000425b.bin
687f2ad1df54df12111982ec202e3172907c3a1065fcba6405967f6747ac802e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x425B 5004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005376.bin
803aef6573f4790f65b15efd8f8030fb60d93d4c5460e0b6b03beb9f7aa680de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5376 10448 bytes