Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 577d415e0134b9bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2020-09-02 05:32:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f418e04e3831720bdb1da5696495df8e SHA-1: 054d9e45246e607f2c50918328814988f1789244 SHA-256: 577d415e0134b9bca2c8b920b42bf0d404bd1799db515ecbb19864ecb1fa3f77
152 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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=human+albumin+solution+guidelines'. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through numerous links. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=human+albumin+solution+guidelines
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_150f3557ebb9460486fd6a6afa461a1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/934fc3_6476ea4a11d64c78b81485e66916a1e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/be19e1_c8b1ce50bd4d4feb8a4e2540176a68f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_ea9b14f8061b4791bcca1a50ebb580dc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1615/9381/files/48222730222.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/17beed_bd85ed8e9f5845fdb6f692db452f8fc0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2fc8fa00ffa9422d9573937e99067c4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dba42a_fb180d807c79485c97dc82b8695bb6c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eeadb7400e864a77a736b5d441db9e81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f103bb_59ad7e0d729649bdabb9bfc6dab8bcab.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba72.bin
3bd4a87aad4228fce46af46cbbd1803a2ec6157bba7d82ad68de29fd0a731cd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA72 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd5.bin
2d6a34bb564e7858bd2843dc8364a8a83e08196eaea357fed7283ca1ebc55ef3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD5 10548 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f00a.bin
43dd7310e986e37c0562d6efd2a67b6291a0d41fa892ecd43b306c3e7231f7b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00A 16148 bytes