Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edcdbd37b925a51b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f152e684a3264fd2d5165833ca8c2954 SHA-1: 35443c959a9be214a992d0289dffaa36097e2b9a SHA-256: edcdbd37b925a51b0584ebe7564246d65eb22b8cdaedce58c0402ed6a87bb5e8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Addends

The PDF file contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=the+bed+of+procrustes+download'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links, suggesting a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. 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=the+bed+of+procrustes+download
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d902bb_25dce8c4f45f4bcb954a7236fa64c99e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/57c819_b3850f66b34a43aa83ed69e4f2928874.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_874d9c6da6c144c6b21e727e9e793d03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f872e80152084739b4d1b42d023644cb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5679/0695/files/egg_recipes_for_breakfast.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9772/2785/files/577470990.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3318/8769/files/4133905247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0385/3476/files/aashto_lrfd_bridge_design_specifications_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8435/6507/files/rofezumufewaroxejip.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2df67ebf33d145a4a7d7626fcc6d1c51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_514fcb85c753499db8ea586f9985d5a2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0722/1658/files/58240260432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6348/4315/files/tuzikovipobuvip.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_off00008248.bin
050477363a0fc38569c43600782f9dd61901e2e777a5a0f4a1a88dadf7e182b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8248 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000094bf.bin
1c33f195dde05b7a7885cb59f44d2efc81bcb13f72b95f9348f30705af8a7af6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94BF 10204 bytes