Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f2eeb875406bb9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-09-05 22:44:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 152d80c8650e4a948b135a22da84ef49 SHA-1: 1a22255172e7c0473ca009a36f819e618a604ed3 SHA-256: 4f2eeb875406bb9a3a3b3530beb845d6f1a184fe919cd9f5485e2d9ad6385b2c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on static.usrfiles.com. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.link, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Isilon a2000 data sheet', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

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=isilon+a2000+data+sheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3276/3801/files/tavetupogikavamimen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0722/1670/files/42970382753.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0560/7079/files/10391905788.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0469/files/xefuwodiwitiku.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ea4d5_4c92ddadebf94d5d96763e2387a7c390.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99a8f2_66f89afb6d064de29d2c880dd27ce299.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/85d67f_f92b19488f284eda813a1fb0e3b5b06a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/921909_8e39c6694f374f1e90f691d84ad6b9ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c9e79d1581144c1ba5652b781978cfe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/38955b_d71f3ef9be324d4ab1b05e20168aa326.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a44510_4a6631ef8bed4114b488840153404c09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f929b_9b7a8f0e310644c8aa6401d136dcb149.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_b2a16169886144a5b3e5459433165660.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ebb60_e5ad9e9f45ba4221be95bd9808d34414.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_off00005eb0.bin
6c1118439453a441f7cda49fee33e6e11945752065b4f8cdd7255eedb00c1654
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EB0 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fc1.bin
41ce5ad433ba67cf073c650e6da123fa8c1cb35b7ada4618c756c82c7db04c28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC1 10408 bytes