Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d61aa375ebd7726…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:55:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 05ebca8d5353bcf3af23196b3488208d SHA-1: 43eee68242d09fefcb6cb14ff09797195e1dc36b SHA-256: 3d61aa375ebd7726898d09edc37c766bfbf0444dc12d728513221a239b494dcf
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.cc. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure unsuspecting users. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, indicating an attempt to disguise the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=basic+spoken+english+for+beginners+p
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c1f2cc44e1941a7b05bf5c0715eae8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_49766b6077d6498a997f29d4c869a5f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5cf39_16a56852d26b4296be915e50b6160e49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_58492f66ab424fb8bc72b81a71a7c012.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5097ae9a06ab421aaeccb800d9fed630.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad319baeaa3f4a14b46fe1e02621a7ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b7290_8f2c0aeba37f4947ad516380ced319f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_7168b357131143f296109710b457b6d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b9728_bcc397c2a1254975a70ada9b9a588402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3218/9860/files/cephalosporins_mechanism_of_action.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2118/8763/files/metabolic_syndrome_review_article.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1938/6526/files/bible_quiz_questions_and_answers_genesis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/76774690079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8085/7253/files/89310018213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1031/files/88312891584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4497/7305/files/atresia_de_esofago_en_recien_nacidos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6524/3813/files/94142013003.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/6781/0459/files/mozazitozakisiw.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069a1.bin
73e972eaa5fb12d6bdde9275ef6feded8a6e17e97de23b48fc3f80e0ea90285a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69A1 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b52.bin
26f2e5e225775bc8c829f953a97af988685925b0aca741e3d608467db053a577
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B52 10112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009de7.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DE7 4324 bytes