Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8238ddf8b4efa55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-28 19:37:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 331db78aa964108386211f3133eed444 SHA-1: 38a1ca46fb36d637000dc2d81838a50fe2c16821 SHA-256: d8238ddf8b4efa55f7872de482e2bbc6efc477a4b2e211fe0c4a8d40c467c288
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=pathfinder+pawns+npc+codex+box+pdf. Additionally, another critical heuristic identified it as a PDF link farm containing numerous external links, with the first being https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3a08abdde3d64b1598a162903453a622.pdf. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. These findings suggest the primary purpose of this PDF is to lure users to malicious sites.

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=pathfinder+pawns+npc+codex+box+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3a08abdde3d64b1598a162903453a622.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f577c71b25d34336a75ae439f6210a03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fdfa90182a5d4bc28e25f13ed5d7ec77.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59962bd600ad464d9eb0dc9e5e75b475.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bffe960db9a440b49904ed44d1a28be5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f86210dab46140d2aa205a30258b3991.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_669cf7f73d7d47788a173a295d4e4d50.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_861183074ec84b019bfb727e8f6b6c40.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e95fec18a414b6698e1d9e79c1d23d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3e2cb3b5b63e4742ab0fab769c7a8d8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a79fbc4fff6349d8a55de628fba08f0e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8706d0520cde4725995667a63ef28ff4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_33b5473b48854912a814f3597e7a1539.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f916a37441c4147a6c9d3dcfe085ef7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_66a6cfa2ee224b98bf7f8cd17310c0b4.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_off00006680.bin
728f3387267f6f7281e323e9d45efcb7f830dda94567aec2867075d99947fa6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6680 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007938.bin
e9ea87c6aee0342af8a1db7e0b865795167a0f229ad25a694d38f1b014a709fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7938 15184 bytes