Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fb6630bdcd465de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:36:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1bc978ba1503b118cab6cc239c2cedc4 SHA-1: eb5ac25ca08d41775417bb0637c20a47247cdf33 SHA-256: 2fb6630bdcd465de6023827a9e7a9ee6e137874fb8a8a587a04b9ed67d607cf6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily garbled, contains the same URL and text related to 'free wwe catalogs', suggesting a lure. The PDF also exhibits a link farm behavior, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload.

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.com/wix?keyword=free+wwe+catalogs
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f6669a76336f4ab58e9517c4f2a0b01a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6ca6542135bd4338936826dc674c0e5c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_36d5bb7b602e4182b67b03335d90b34f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ce009ef657864d7f8b0a84db86214aba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b3f46_7bb927d7ca0e42559ddfbf3029b9cf10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5438e3_cfeb8b17270c441f8fca77532704d704.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cb993aec78354c05bc22b84878ffdd64.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7880/files/76720531151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/bibosufoxijoxurog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6887/3112/files/mere_naal_tu_whistle_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7686/8504/files/36260613657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1997/6350/files/petewanaxapupazafot.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_off00005ad3.bin
272cbcd8820cf392c8c5ecef0bb4d2bea1941c8dcce1c56758643d34977f5d5a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD3 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c04.bin
8b0bd9464cb05efa46cb317a0f3a63ce134f90b08c9d43d981034036956a2fea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C04 9956 bytes