Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e32d91c3444c0b78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:05:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1efe8473d42e704c75d4973ad71c0cff SHA-1: 9e8e7e8e22fe545322159a32b76581e8954cf2de SHA-256: e32d91c3444c0b78e6fd788f736f197a2fe7e7819f1520859cc3a65747635d96
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=crazy+love+study+questions'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of a link farm heuristic further suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=crazy+love+study+questions
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_78be48e3f329473faaf62ddd94226a5e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_010bf85e0616475f8fd1f65b5da666ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e81b9_427f48d3c6cc4f4b8c75d8f55a794a5a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/there_was_a_problem_starting_logilda._dll.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9663/7597/files/6816863989.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3742/5813/files/88314568241.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7279/8373/files/king_of_my_heart_piano_sheet_music_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/16917502478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1280/8091/files/ignou_ba_exam_date_sheet_december_2017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2603/7411/files/salter_scales_instructions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0094/5048/files/ublock_origin_youtube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1339/6901/files/mupiju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6130/4728/files/vageboje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8561/0654/files/sogeze.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_off00008774.bin
e56f767e724682495ce2ad6a294c1fa02e30759eb68e7736668ff438169300b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8774 5064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098cc.bin
e84a5af8b1b1046860b23d37a0f59b813ae87c16b9fa5b091fee28ffe02dc2a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98CC 10368 bytes