Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 302ff73383ae9940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:23:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1db4575491bb61a4dced24cd49370ed7 SHA-1: 44f84534885cd163deb1a1ca86091692ef826942 SHA-256: 302ff73383ae9940b9da8899f7a10c3cb88a8536ab406648cb931fea7699d934
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with the primary link directing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=battletech+a+time+of+war+companion+p, which is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=battletech+a+time+of+war+companion+p
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7f1c85de66dd4687b694c5f26e3a0ccd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e793c5d1ce4c4a4885eb53c11826fe8e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0049ca_be18af42041441c498968767676cbc8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/225520_67525eb0edb443f9babf1710a98e6bad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4507/7660/files/fabojurusepin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/keep_screen_on_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/8691/4212/files/49694869617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0913/8084/files/65135972651.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3009/2696/files/26411518017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8820/7254/files/oxford_collocations_dictionary_of_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9513/8208/files/26696263883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6127/9896/files/15897424735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5376/0160/files/67657471989.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7140/6237/files/12114704453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6001/8852/files/dangling_and_misplaced_modifiers_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9494/1603/files/estandares_de_calidad_ambiental.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_off000096a8.bin
8eb3c043fc170968ffbbac6c749393d5a2c4051d2ba5bc92cfc118a145dafc64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96A8 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a854.bin
ba9ed7d61f2419f86ba944ba6c56c8a26f424bed5b9d2ac115bcf71c0ac2e248
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA854 10524 bytes