Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1be9c456103d8b41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:59:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 23a073d335f2dd890aa97dbecf59397d SHA-1: c5f8175d2cc41fa3c821adfba566a6bc8a6e4a2d SHA-256: 1be9c456103d8b415850428b2536aca585ba4530a4acba127320cd860b6440d4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a SWOT analysis worksheet. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=swot+analysis+worksheet+hcs+499, which is presented within the document body. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to external PDFs, many of which point to static.usrfiles.com, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further 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.club/wix?keyword=swot+analysis+worksheet+hcs+499
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eeb3b2e7382c4d3a8e6af164e73f8587.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a31856_7777808ae29a4a9cb53adc0e4d778d87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e545cd6d120641878d735a97ba28563c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bb894_90ae40b8342447caa2ea5445106211c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbc5d4d42aef426d9b0325a200230972.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_2849c48aeaff43f9ae18ef9bf044fc7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_50710b7d4b1d4648b38b2446f56aa861.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dc7aa24064ba448a99e040353308ca38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_2ada36c7d8be4ab2b063b495587420ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8127dd_8fd4457fccda4129956a3ffc47971bf6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33ab24_16368ee742f946eea7e372334455332b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_6a92c96b550240f68e7900dae057060b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05e8dd3f692e42dd9d7b98aabf6b5b1c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6e0f6f997bcb4a4ba617ecf9cb4b2ecc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0059d019dd9447f2a0ece78b553d13f6.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
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b77a0e6d84b770a12bb7aa36beee17b448eba4a7c0079941a4fcf0a45c3f4add
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E5 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000879f.bin
4b174c5daaa870e34fcb417ed47f3521401882c93386d70e57d566111a115620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x879F 12108 bytes