Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2feb5e9cbc8a3506…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-09-06 14:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdfa84ac0bcc3beae72112eba2ccbd34 SHA-1: d9bbe8f3c9457515455590ad6f45b3e1fa3a4620 SHA-256: 2feb5e9cbc8a35063bfb0290eefb32ee5bf249f303dc90961c90f10a9d5c1bd7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=you+are+the+reason+sheet+music+violin'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on static.usrfiles.com. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via the embedded link.

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.me/wix?keyword=you+are+the+reason+sheet+music+violin
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_849260e9f727411bb4a94b305a075ef4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_91bd76de3e76456eaec83261e4df3258.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/429b25_671b8f677b274b0592513c16ebe0642d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_d1145225e57a4df1a177104b1d3aa7c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3834b_890ec416af504440aae2e662fe372652.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7ef1a_e1fb06847df44f92a0cc74201e2ed347.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b68be_13a620184d5640708feef873a48fff7a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db93e9_d1f9cca6a2a84e499b53c6d80ce033d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_e7e9d31cb6b2429d91f36c197bd97b33.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1147/3309/files/pes_2018_football_game_app.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2631/7473/files/d_d_5e_ua.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9219f8_bc0c97dcb41c4bdf983a0a9063759d00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/71fd01_f0bbdcc3ec0a4c91a014e2072fa42243.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_5b0a8e9e9e3e4599b8843d357fad2c68.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e261fc6a85604b87890c33fb52107b63.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_off000066d3.bin
e401be810ffc3c3486d4e62e5aa7813d72882b4cc55822519c244b36ecb0bf8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D3 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077e4.bin
6715c20d138b6734a8b9b25abe45504e7f06cb9b4216869cc7f92d5b11377c81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E4 10516 bytes