Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6a4ab73d34e38b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:57:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ecdd40b0b9b6c95e3617a8d9270c8a2a SHA-1: 0ec085bb8b28843ee2762e9e09412196f670de51 SHA-256: e6a4ab73d34e38b5e60aee8f9cc7e367d3666a136a462fafd73f4a21d9176711
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with multiple links pointing to static.usrfiles.com and a primary malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to external content.

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=las+almas+de+brandon
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1be480_6c72f1f3e7f242c8a6c02d643cd21fe6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab0441_50f13ee671ea449cbc505fb5a39533f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74e9cf_9722b40e9ddb45b898a0a88c0f0e1df4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9cb0c7f7e05c460f8636592472dbac9e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_34b093875e7b4211b87459cf34a6e2a2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0182/2875/files/18527943639.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_030a6e9254f049b4be1a0ede90d0dbbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ab6db6c9077e43ccaa1105bdd32d337a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_35396f3a25dc4e48b77620c942a71c0f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c30af_ff3b014919504146bac54e2014e369d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e8d5142e7c894a51bdee1eaed8d5c0eb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3350/files/zenanezikezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9755/4084/files/98549332260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/susizinowazux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3983/4780/files/66293900304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8299/8170/files/mezidimukowivakuvutirilo.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_off00004b82.bin
a863db34c0e0064b89f469b7330fe349ee1c2705da06b515fb426c98f8dde817
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B82 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c90.bin
29e7768572e2e620cad6d60f9d7b7080eb1adab47c86dd0b9180618aa4e29701
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C90 10416 bytes