Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8f15c03eff2420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.8 KB Created: 2020-09-09 14:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ef1dc2ae59dfe13e6eff6540d3b5137e SHA-1: 79e7f966de157884dbf094a00815c9508de3c866 SHA-256: 3e8f15c03eff2420c6a3508f4c6bde227e408d700651befb780dabd8005feb20
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.link, which is disguised as a search result for 'clustertruck free mac'. The PDF also contains a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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.link/wix?keyword=clustertruck+free++mac
    • http://mepug.ultimateperu.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070387/64292e04.pdf
    • http://files.dragonflywoodworks.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606011/ffc72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0582e0_2d01c48c280b4c57acaf8f0d3a32fbb3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40512e_5344dbfebe61409bb466e34b805bc0ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18122d_98d599f395094bc39bc176f9ef81374a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_a6c7c4549a51497db19e5bb2afe3cade.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d3758e_c0b951c1546441e9ace5a67b80e4cd95.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2758/files/angular_template_variable_from_observable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3524/5216/files/tabagiwosuwomovijizoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1572/4456/files/86909075978.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efc97f_7bb5036c886c45dc9be73d84a8213ccb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_f099a01c093b4acb8a1057393adfd92b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5d2cf3_2ff7792e4f1e4d42ad7a94393250ded8.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_off0001d04c.bin
093035dbe7d5fcc2a7437c81bde26dbc378d731636e564e63aa31856c4c1b771
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D04C 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001e12f.bin
17e41f757f53b997393dbc2b2de872aa3fd8e8fe9145d5ca2e7ef2864aa5036c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E12F 10752 bytes