Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 350f0bfbe9ad9735…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:14:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39b2da43db979befc09f52f10df6587f SHA-1: 218ba5d3cd089d79f24716756f625ce31729533b SHA-256: 350f0bfbe9ad9735c6d82959f94843123b68d1c3f8715ecfd93120dc6da3e0cf
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 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=nbc+news+reporter+female'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. 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=nbc+news+reporter+female
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cafc24_5c510feb16154c539c6dd6f9a5bcbb69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/71fd01_81b10366cea14bb9be61374f1ed5becb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_cfb93803e9394f0492bbb11e1eabae0e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c30af_67bdf97d568b4cf389947870f159fe0a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2880/6808/files/rapirepun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9926/8003/files/72903863390.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0945/files/11228270549.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3220/3679/files/autodwg_to_dwg_converter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0016/8597/files/dinezif.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f702f7ca07b3449f80b3d98b7fa04ab3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_00ecde65ddfd4794afa88df49c7a44fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_ded5ac7dc3e04e5a9cfd97082582f29e.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f702f7ca07b3449f80b3d98

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c10c.bin
7f20daa7fc7f316ffb554152e89eb6da2354f40c80656d5beb9a24d8c685a882
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC10C 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d346.bin
8d7f22ffc3c7a3a2d2c06d60947f9a4c91faf3d2e6344ea7ddecda23f95c31ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD346 10848 bytes