Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58655d4a45485b91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-09-09 11:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ad0190d9b556afa066a0a216a2f178e SHA-1: 577e63082732ca44c2ca2eda45bdd8a31756991d SHA-256: 58655d4a45485b914f7936ed52e130f8c4f9ce2c459b04242655baf6560e10ed
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'ttraff.club'. This redirector is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and references to 'Blizzard classic games', suggesting a lure to entice clicks. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO or distribute traffic.

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.club/wix?keyword=blizzard+classic+games
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/804ff6_7f671a8e4c2649afab2b08ace558d4e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_c9e9d2b9487e4509aaa9a582bebac691.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bd5c68_f8d3c5acf6614e1881a60ab3cea992f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/628a76_c664010d2dc942599a1bd4cd4d7c6361.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3704/7449/files/internet_of_things_projects.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0728/7197/files/punctuation_worksheet_for_grade_8_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/6676/9827/files/medicine_buddha_practice.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0234/7168/files/13648844188.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97368a_fed967f3902749808c4772ffd27f2ef6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cb5dea_5c3f964a5af44f939702f8aaeab603c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_934154a306554eada6db38ac266477d1.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_off00007ef9.bin
11d6a55defaf0be9f0d44cf662e633dc8ee8e18d606a2a70216f57a2a4187553
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EF9 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000911f.bin
f77fd463e36b12d88a8414900ae2ae38b5f3a9d6542a4b9f02d915e90bafa5a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x911F 14260 bytes