Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 532a5990d03cb158…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 37677ffb9d9c943cab3a30b3b9ebb8ee SHA-1: ff9bf98d15a82a3754a68c97d93822f3d3aa8d84 SHA-256: 532a5990d03cb158fa4b4d09b516fb9656525e70ab1b4a48c6d115b14ff67f8b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains numerous embedded links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=spiritual+new+year+resolutions', points to a known malicious redirector. The document also contains a large farm of external PDF links, many of which are hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting a link-farming or redirection strategy to distribute malicious content.

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=spiritual+new+year+resolutions
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28a425e369a54c39bbb2a8fcb70a94a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0779a3_da29e271f8fa4cecac928c6f79539a4c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1decf9_4db8c5b947e04043bed4dbde3ab0f9d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_33a20c2671d049069480350bf5f2db69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8a981_3475d6d406754a838f9f53cf953cbe05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_a1b88dc2bcab43beb2ef9593db06ad24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f80ec_11ddbfd0dd1942f8b998ce51a113d870.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b97dd_ef84f9a157c340b7b90347366b2978b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4117a9_d0a4dd0037794cb38474a307520e1741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5782/3390/files/grupo_calvo_annual_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6984/8217/files/bdc_general_anatomy_handbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8812/4830/files/birem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2503/8498/files/aromatic_hydrocarbons_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3576/1576/files/nikon_capture_nx_d_manual.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_off00006c58.bin
ef4a331a039750d5c74095a79b0c02933f08682e42255550d722b0491d3206e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C58 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007dd8.bin
a34d5a2de2037f654bd3639a924f3d04a0dfb5174f5b7827c0382d8cd0097943
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DD8 10436 bytes