Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33ceac05737cbe5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 02:44:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e0640c09de917c6d28be4422607607b5 SHA-1: f8d93eaf1425c7a81e85bdcd96f3cc706da56ff4 SHA-256: 33ceac05737cbe5a6ebfbeac803d573b142a16d475968c85e61667587c799835
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=american+medical+association+guide+t'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains the same redirector URL and a list of other URLs, suggesting a lure to external content. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to a potentially harmful destination.

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=american+medical+association+guide+t
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa232c00dec347458a860aaa1b17f07f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_223ccd1e89e34bd7a0ffaf89c4021050.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f9a76637d0b0456eb2d7cc0d08568385.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f15f4eec0df14e40a334b110ed713dea.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4681/3344/files/achieving_excellence_through_customer_service.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nujogopuju.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3be6d8a7088b43f1914a2bec883e7a1c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2b12ed667c8546a8b7cda8764859d588.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3c3186151282412994eede7da5cfc590.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_89285515dba146d78a22f869ad5f555a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1279f4279e6c4c0781e816f778503051.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_942f2fbdf7a242c981bb776b108d2ab5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_869ac493c09145dba22f0521491ed8c5.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_off0000a8e4.bin
cc43107a17ade427f160a6ff237e47d41b96090cd633c49f80b9c51b807a3484
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8E4 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ba92.bin
43f07e5c2bd88fbc5db9cdf4858e4e7e103d59cce15c39f0a7181a4e2697d4ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA92 10728 bytes