Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 277c6b2af2d918d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 04:55:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebc11937749e5ae1bd416edb350cb99d SHA-1: 23f5ab814893b06b2dcafc4ac9da3c9d48aa8e61 SHA-256: 277c6b2af2d918d14233512146ec459cdfd301edef895821c4aef6a32e72ed55
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=pocket+juice+2200mah+manual, which is also present in the heuristics as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF contains a link farm with 24 external PDF links, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a coordinated effort to manipulate search engine results or distribute 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.cc/wix?keyword=pocket+juice+2200mah+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59576f33e5104edd9ab1cbd62367a1f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bb52067d17a94301bc4f6831a2a45ebe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_efd228b7b8a34489880d51d81f03bf33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef5e09b7eced42b080408b2561c9aa22.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6387/8566/files/ravojevofivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2164/6498/files/78971745528.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/minirefotapobizezuloxot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6559/0438/files/matidutajam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/28068876324.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4a65437d74f04c28a5d146b6fab35e5d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_abffd63dda0b4bf8ad2058abcf4aeb5a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_85f6f5ce8cc248e7a4413e0384b2d39e.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_off00005d42.bin
2988d98e944f6e88bd8542c4725222e5372621bf66a114bd3d780c93d68ac7f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D42 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ec3.bin
33abfb34b72c94df53f095e53e4250510862b9c0e9bcaa0e9d9b5bfa397950b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EC3 10532 bytes