Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df0833ca55e1bea3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 05:01:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 99adc76c544406d526625f108af8db14 SHA-1: 01cdd9a64bc50be7cd1a4972bdfb3e50d37c0ae2 SHA-256: df0833ca55e1bea31224ed18c0484aa3ff107d6729a7bf3b2e01b7031d9a0d35
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=%25C3%25A9valuation+les+nombres+jusqu%2527%25C3%25A0+100+ce1', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the link farm and redirector are sufficient indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=%25C3%25A9valuation+les+nombres+jusqu%2527%25C3%25A0+100+ce1
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0f0678bcc89d460ab75901da9b38828a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46ba6182436e4eddb7f5e135cc2b47a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c256828c855547359a80938226cdcb4e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4818/9603/files/45145185484.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e392bc79161543b7b6f1b01790f5d232.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e6d5c376767f4cbdaf1b5c0ac0765ec8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2a8a40dfe72642cdb52092dba0978cb6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a2b645165f764475a2025cef6bc9471f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4bf834038ac2425ab653fe22675e28e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d01c2263745f421caa30d754d1a999cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1184f9f3fe86435aa291defcad351a0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_153e1287329848209452019ea5d5b110.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f3767ac4ebae471ab6c05b0be961bbe1.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005956.bin
100cc1ba8b119d1cbe9c5732b3442404c82ce818b13034cdccdf13c1e91a6c8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5956 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c10.bin
bae0d1432181dca5ec5c6b4c7cca458af5ae91dacc9c66207c11675113a7a05c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C10 11632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009182.bin
aad9bc0f36eadc3314e08670b59090120051e308b357201f134af3d0b781b2b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9182 16312 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a70e.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA70E 4324 bytes