Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29916d5abb0fe427…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-09-02 18:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb4d8457033caf49ad7661ff2dd65e1e SHA-1: ff2e4a84567dfb470c050810c0449eea796edcf7 SHA-256: 29916d5abb0fe4274841106a9323c66efaad0433c542b5ed5d2646645c77bf4e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document contains a link farm designed to appear as a career assessment test, ultimately redirecting users to malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.club'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes numerous external links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=career+assessment+test+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_d1f81bd9ecb5453cbfad5033fdc12586.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_3d1b541e8df54c459004d612514e0908.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_42b970ed43df4e2ba54efe42cb3542d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_90a4b20d415c4ad0a216df7b38692efa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2671/0432/files/flute_sheet_music_pop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0609/1673/files/roblox_exploits_for_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2117/9802/files/economic_structural_adjustment_programme_in_zimbabwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2881/4746/files/risagaxeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8669/9925/files/barron_s_regents_geometry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0229/8521/files/72513644911.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c81504_11064fb6b6d84321ad20bdca0b7ab5d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c618e9_c50b396b9bf641558b551bd63e5c4330.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa6f14_a84ac96d579c41558a8c3294b51ce56b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5d2cf3_e52a1372b39442d287d4cfad67aea20f.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_off00006c95.bin
8fb66a8b38689d9b0a0193c5e1b8e1e5d42cd4ea8b76beab7389894b2934247c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C95 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007db2.bin
c723ddf74566ec65ed86762dfbb22751ace864df089add16086110dfa15cd29e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DB2 10936 bytes