Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d67ddaef9199081…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 21:39:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd3bb79d3d995341864bf93fb743c64c SHA-1: 037d6b56d38c0958686458994c788e04cb103c1a SHA-256: 3d67ddaef91990818891e750d4d12e046f16ac8b04b0bf449b558bbd92db11eb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=how+to+make+fertilizer+ark', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve SEO or distribute malicious content.

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=how+to+make+fertilizer+ark
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d775a9_0980a10d1ddb4398b4ef3b231743f646.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1184f9f3fe86435aa291defcad351a0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c10e36ba89844a9a9e803c1d762651e0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/tagazetuwepugemo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1583/0695/files/a_dozen_a_day_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6368/0929/files/bitevofag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1564/3042/files/the_new_real_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9919/9390/files/jumon.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5aed9_a824d864a78c4e0fae8d9bb09337d70c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_7fb663f0aaca464b8b7a10a1e71a9d12.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1fbf8b_888e54fd53d946d999c05b956464b448.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8b57079a03574ee384b79c52a839f77f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a4f49d37fb594763bca7091127031944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4528/8093/files/alguma_poesia_livro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37638787324.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_off000050b0.bin
81dacdb00fdc4770a539a5d5b8e70ae07b91ad076ed46c4958bd6226557ccba1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50B0 4904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006159.bin
de126a91df1977a53212091b0aa76687a854f5fea6e3d6abde79c6e12bfaf34f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6159 10228 bytes