Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ca06b95e6a3a558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 12:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2644507c30cbc6c4d4c4463d3e6dc4c4 SHA-1: 9a22b5eb88dd616c19a3730e75aca83096378c59 SHA-256: 1ca06b95e6a3a5588e3ac97ef715766cd45a25b8a1d8aa4449795d5e1fd21ecb
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.cc/pify?keyword=angular+template+driven+forms+pattern'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with one pointing to 'https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_4147cf597a514a6c84fe17843b340b84.pdf'. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent.

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.cc/pify?keyword=angular+template+driven+forms+pattern
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_4147cf597a514a6c84fe17843b340b84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e66f0e7910d14589a2043e769c769efc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ceeb9_d640f02b66ed4d7087cbfbfbd75dc7e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a43ec6_09e693a89f44454f88ccc9d693e1f563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4729/6922/files/adventure_time_season_10_episode_9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4845/9673/files/69225808931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6081/7048/files/can_data_bus_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6591/5032/files/26294489658.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7955433ae3c6467c940f2973aa63a031.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_03b346ecdfe244d6a691f349a32ad0e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_cbbfc81ddc8f4940bf26c07a1e811f8a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/20d83a_56ee4caf58e547cf8f8d6f06b1c9a2b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e78b77_72d8b7f7398c4224bb1e7aee2581b80a.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_off00008c58.bin
04b46975903eea8adbbce222ba93c67705a3c6b245fa187aa9768d5b0d70c969
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C58 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009eb6.bin
7418000074b8b53ba2d846489a0b223a9698908e137d4623853983d6111f8f51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EB6 15956 bytes