Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddb3b6fda164e744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:09:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 161362e23f51329f00865c25362376e2 SHA-1: f3963c21a8e82d8f83f298ba4498de202e138ab8 SHA-256: ddb3b6fda164e744b895c00b57e438bff7dbc5b20aa88365517f695bd138df4e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=the+atlantic+cryptic+crosswords' is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure to a phishing or malware site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, reinforcing its role in the 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=the+atlantic+cryptic+crosswords
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_12dbbae6700946b2bd35f5b8641ff41c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4dd980_3ff3533555584c1cbf9604b8b9762dc2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0286dd_9da1e75d89964ad19cddfb8b7b7ee208.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7a620_cb9e4010c312472d994aedca46a876f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_65373540caa0459fa6610c8336131adb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9878380b4589458a9e397987f4a737ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f2190803f6a4aa79018dbb087649e63.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48975286879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1609/3849/files/76701515614.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6129/4757/files/kaluvaxezorisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3001/8210/files/gibinuvemakajise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1760/0152/files/85435629373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3905/4231/files/brain_drain_in_developing_countries.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9336/0791/files/11145272278.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_off000073bf.bin
e25fe025cde92b7f342588166948a84cfdda0fe0e7ed9c03239b95976e879c1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73BF 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085cb.bin
b859093549859e6ccd668071905036bac80a1f0e4be4674075ae11c40fe71b4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85CB 10144 bytes