Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a73087fe7b07867…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 00:00:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fcd41cf701070579f1c793d10dc7217b SHA-1: 666418ec7f2181d41b10027708996c7e459fa772 SHA-256: 2a73087fe7b0786761cb9d86ea462f89e413a518ffc07c8d2e5e64571ec433a5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=zte+handset+usb+driver'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a lure to download a driver. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=zte+handset+usb+driver
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cac35fdc5c674d378de60213d0f1a981.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1615c_537529e8724349e3b8513485fcbf8973.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4364837c90e34bed80cf35080e482e5a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_b0312f695c584b03a8932eaeee956ed7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_ae144de964f74562b5ad41dbef2cbec5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da91eb6cea424e249b9b5cf871653045.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa6f14_50dd8bc4032c4de78377b3ce8189bdc4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1352/8987/files/bengali_astronomy_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4684/4054/files/xovuzolubuzex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1187/3688/files/rogexineriguzokovax.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d2cc1f_93c91b0f1c5247bfbcd9811ee4b81eb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c21f99e7162d4716ba4de2ede43cec1f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87fdc7_77131a8ece7a4c169f9719b1e81b1f27.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000054bb.bin
2eeb63d6bbdc206f6c16dada67a1735327861584f3cd6135cba02100993d2beb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54BB 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000065ce.bin
b94b520386efbcd94440ee5720e6026f70dea132fe3b905f43565564beacb03b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65CE 13552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000902e.bin
b0537bf13414dae314c9e017e80164e2142a20e44a99bca74a2bb57c0a317c82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x902E 17356 bytes