Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 257a67fcb4f82d87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 05:03:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20df336235073a80787e0253ee01c528 SHA-1: 53994790badf87c49434b407b2e6e2d2bbc48420 SHA-256: 257a67fcb4f82d870c6058240d22810b8a47fc1e569e5be65bc55cbc6093ca26
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution chain. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lure the user to a harmful external resource.

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=frida+kahlo+paintings+meanings
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f7deda28ff6422481ffdd6e65b38894.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9ef6696a4feb4dc59f1d1e9e14a7af82.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_47f7a01402fc48dbabd94c8980a3608e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2e001332d39b4cd69e54935833f64099.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e0d82353fcf42f18595ed52e8a2d523.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f875d4407444259a3dbeb4d55c5e712.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99629299280b4f74b9c96dbba9db3d3d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_21cb4e68ab704fa3b620b496ca41d391.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_be3f86843bd04fbbaa6c16104dc46e2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fae215fcc8554218abf0cf5653c3ead0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0076/5336/files/20221141001.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3976/0285/files/ielts_recent_actual_test_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7731/1395/files/restore_chat_backup_whatsapp_iphone_to_android.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_off00006825.bin
5981f4f91ae82afe227f01e95af477230740d4c6755ad9de63a680ad6eb426de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6825 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a4e.bin
4a715e5602e4db2c0b81a9d64feec7659ecc2402ee92c5e290a65add1bb0f23d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A4E 10088 bytes