Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebb8feee32817d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-09-02 18:07:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e2a586ca9092134bb4c6d049b95d9002 SHA-1: 1c347f8b9488b4176d20c8483ea29eae3aaa42c9 SHA-256: ebb8feee32817d76965884eadb9dd714c31396e0a74d1b9b14c1dff3ad482ab5
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=classification+of+triangles+worksheets+5th+grade'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a large number of other URLs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious 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=classification+of+triangles+worksheets+5th+grade
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/143c98_89d9e81f4ecd49fe979c09620871d300.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4dd980_1fc9102c67044c2ebb80c203dd022bc0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0d1c67659093413da620fc3c1c1b5d42.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d6844_537ce826fd464465b285467646eb0f80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_077d36029be64a068a327385d3f72aa6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3028/1381/files/83299514112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9338/5633/files/bokijibuvo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1050/5373/files/53437114613.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ceb2e8_cb312982e7c344f690448ef69d1922ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c5d40f_f3fe490080384a4daab91ac9377af512.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_57a65f72c6064b2cb086bc54a51b850a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0128/1701/files/tedulejufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2065/6545/files/air_pollution_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8993/5002/files/python_binomial_coefficient.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_off00005142.bin
4ec4d7d149ffccfd7d3fabbfe99e3578430eebf9caf87fc54aa64ac10a62b764
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5142 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063e8.bin
45e708f3e6b611f030ba719b90eabc26017b22ea98645177ffecc8077e09b022
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E8 9644 bytes