Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc7d4ba68cc0fb87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d61ab94638abd6f183ae5e1c07566924 SHA-1: 20c39c32fcec37031e9357c8494e5715bc755b33 SHA-256: dc7d4ba68cc0fb870f9bdeab9f7170776ad58eeeb68f6c5920d072d94cd7062a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=in+ciris+footsteps, which is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous other embedded links suggests a link farm or redirection strategy designed to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=in+ciris+footsteps
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_a6037a0bf27842b39656324b726fb850.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5bb01c_868491ab186e499a8c20a850d41bc0f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_63922fa31b41428287cf2be7e624960d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_27a1d5dae6d6492e9c161aa61f94b069.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/lakshmi_stotram_in_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6332/8418/files/alpari_uk_mt4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef2c3fe903db484f8f70043bbc4036a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca9b0a_e8e163bab75f4ec2a2ae45d075d21a7e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf650e_74b197bfb31248d6b93820b21283c50e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5415a_aed1ec914bff45169c8518c572f19866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8408/5416/files/atlas_of_human_anatomy_for_the_artist_peck.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1450/4093/files/74582572088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1083/3058/files/fiwilunarigasamej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4856/6933/files/rutedafanopox.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_off00008196.bin
8c7e5e577f0fb7ba9cf1695b7beb0b57cf916777db5f4c230f6d061271f8faa7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8196 4704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000919f.bin
2871059034148a52a206b7b475392e398a6b49479e1b1b3788814aaf2ad1f010
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x919F 10024 bytes