Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4007256a5e521b69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:37:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb205cc5601848253d9fca26aae6844c SHA-1: 58191211a7589b189c361ae708dd3456ad33e336 SHA-256: 4007256a5e521b697e63bca649df8f6866db29dfd957c7984d3d6100dead174d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a list of other URLs hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for malicious content. The ML classifier 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=zen+dude+fitness+program
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8cbfce_7ccc05d324be4a51bce7a1bb1fdf1fe1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/271e65_93adfcdbf71d4852a11dc788b2ab013c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7749e4e019894db19f760c4fb37cd163.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/08fe48_3f13d1668af645be8a9fa33548effdf8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/09273f_9d3a97618d1149029491fa1d6552be81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fedf23_2839a7d5fb674c71bc7593ba552924b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c33cdb_b105087b0c1542fa823a57d98d81d2b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ed579ad385854d5c88d434ac03084648.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_f75263f9c7c741249983f353bbf87cff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_7211de26f3b640aa91c8eb5794c93211.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b807141955ef4b10b45a1f6f3750c3ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3325f_4ce05a117c8445f59a702fb73040378f.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_off0000712e.bin
50d2a1c179b0de480660eba64ef694c1db0ac2df1bda4ab1baf2b7ad1b9dda02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x712E 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008318.bin
fa3b3d10ea79dec22f760e2f6029b1891a3d9028a84b211f9f72616b87a4df52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8318 10488 bytes