Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d3abd6019a9e2fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 14:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3179a4fc85f68066d3e37695a651bbf6 SHA-1: dfb997cbf828d9c21f59e7c9e85c7c35c6ab923c SHA-256: 1d3abd6019a9e2fe1a1d64faa9c217fcf995f891f95500460eeae8a8e811d409
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link disguised as a software update notification for Adobe Acrobat Reader, directing users to 'ttraff.cc'. This URL is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wix?keyword=old+version+acrobat+reader+dc
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_c16a3ce5761a45a4bc042a216a9495ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_820baa075182491abb245d76f08da3a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b03e46931a834a4abe0d87883e5c7738.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cbde0697eade453e89748eba8e4cc329.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0d1c67659093413da620fc3c1c1b5d42.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/8046/1991/files/libro_para_colorear_lol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4647/5675/files/ludwig_s_angina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2857/6416/files/paulk_compact_workbench.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2590/8383/files/81165690667.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dd30d_8a6fae9c9fa64f3499acaf0107579dda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c3627c8100d844888d7e80be0a9117e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b7d8a_db170882722f441299faf72624694527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/perforated_metal_sheet_melbourne.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8386/6018/files/lavarirupuvagomabubenizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5039/2984/files/58038244075.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_off00005d45.bin
d019edf31f5b6f77a8174a1708c2e59c9e971446e4b4bc56ee398751a171c808
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D45 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ed9.bin
6c669f75d8e07adf427eb515fcb6d3feb9997eb671a4830ad276db9386e264d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ED9 13996 bytes