Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45f4e6c2d3f8b756…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:31:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9b113de90109d227163efef68cb58254 SHA-1: 3bc2b13b096205a1511e684c7209c4184e3f1076 SHA-256: 45f4e6c2d3f8b756adc64256ba83e30886ecd6f347c8e96be39f27ec7935f568
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The embedded URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=clyde+bergemann+soot+blower+manual is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the intended lure. The presence of numerous other links, while many are benign, contributes to a link farm tactic, potentially for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination.

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=clyde+bergemann+soot+blower+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7603ae_1dce1717e156408d8badb47c5d6966c4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e32c2_c478f6e375b1443fa8d086ac9299e40f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4dcae3f53e624f2aa444ceba4c10c12f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_8f6dfe28b6fd4101bbc99b7214baefbe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/baixar_jogos_de_futebol_para_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5135/0166/files/american_crime_story_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0796/5345/files/bonafide_certificate_institute_verification_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6367/0939/files/fried_pork_chops_nutritional_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3177/3852/files/89851515225.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ead4e8c8306479ab4a774814528b582.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e0d82353fcf42f18595ed52e8a2d523.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6290de_21ad41ad0b5142b68f010b254b4c42e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f5cef_fb6a0b5817994c9a9defa98c659cb96a.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_off00005f34.bin
7d78db9b12cd1ab8e044de8ed42741f8d7c54e5721533c7bab57d30aa6c65958
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F34 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007176.bin
cf2a3f875f261efe035226ffbd04e179d2b83d364bcfd8618edad92bff91fb9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7176 9956 bytes