Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fb5443e78b1bcea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 04:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cc6113d08bf7396ff73858f32663935d SHA-1: 6e90c4dc214fa0c72d1dc6975286411f1c941f73 SHA-256: 3fb5443e78b1bceaae7211f4e15c49b5bda9edb98e04be56aec869aad06b0310
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure. The primary heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com', which is likely used to funnel victims to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Astroneer planet resource guide', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.com/wix?keyword=astroneer+planet+resource+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_f4523e04e0314bdca47ab53d1be7956b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0047a4_cc65ce3ee32a43cd9e356b5dc2cc1745.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_07aea694ddc84fb7afafc305c4f2e49d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_4787341a33a9465e882f13059199a18f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_a0b47dba2e7444e2870c4d34a479c9b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_729d691f03ea498285c983a66500103a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a474dd_81cfaee1966c4445b448a9d9934f0286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8092/2789/files/analysis_for_financial_management_higgins_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8827/1767/files/wufatefawunalalasuzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20597849085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2643/1652/files/account_manager_apk_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0468/1095/5930/files/2018_kia_stinger_gt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0496/6565/files/82658746067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3903/8360/files/pixetexozaxawor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/86377002622.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_off00006965.bin
07fbc799ec6194c8c48336d9ba53ead338db4fb96a51a5676a8dc6caa6e8ef07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6965 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b41.bin
cb223e9755381f0fee216b59df80ba24046517a49adfc4e4a1b6e89d84b99e67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B41 10012 bytes