Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49c37664ff91379b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 02:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 165072d99ed3a3648b705e4e10584518 SHA-1: bfb292f2e01b4fd7f1f1c1da67fefad7fae64045 SHA-256: 49c37664ff91379b65862a553ee2715c1f03429a087cc8d8f174d0c7485b45a3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=development+through+the+lifespan+5th+edition+pdf+free'. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=development+through+the+lifespan+5th+edition+pdf+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa221773c22547fdb89987f057ae7911.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2b09b_4e203eb481324735af27f888a8577731.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d4241ec326ec442ea865977467cb768c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_51667dfdb0f2408c99f5496248e38dfd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_f42d1b9628834c8e9b6e71a50c89cd72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5cf39_c66bdb8e85eb44a6969eba9a9db14848.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9af6a01153da4800bb69aa80a8cf6f5b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_48d56d99f5db44099dd19650b14b9f03.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4484/7261/files/berebifedozalirigifomovel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8598/6982/files/55839352768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6683/6388/files/bozumalabazukikunelemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2358/0835/files/53923555274.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1473/1414/files/remesexefunuka.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_off00009180.bin
6671f104b2d9207c415cc6900b1aab9885c5f68f9368424a0bbbce6ce84f4f5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9180 5640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a48b.bin
95a328d2b70fcf8e6dad3ac7995d2c5bb80b22608cb9045f7685826218046b90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA48B 10356 bytes