Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a5fae41ac882ff7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-09-06 15:59:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e28b99c8df449248b304477d12cc052 SHA-1: 24170dc16cb4602ea9287452920eaceff2895054 SHA-256: 7a5fae41ac882ff705d04e051bf112acbc96c943dca2a00de87d0be3582bcb3c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a high ML score and the presence of numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=ancient+greece+a+new+history+pdf'. Another heuristic indicated a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body contains garbled text but does include the redirector URL and several benign-looking URLs, 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.club/wix?keyword=ancient+greece+a+new+history+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/764aaa_849104fa28534608a0a298ef2e2a42f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_9e48242d58b24e75be2dc55eb0489f46.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f09a9d_c5411229daec453ca0dae7f1de2f1126.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ff653_d61f99e4df924dc38714aa62ba925e01.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/140efa_b195bfdfd7c3414387f76a68e17699c1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1761/6034/files/xivanarajapawuri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5598/6341/files/90036144918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4583/9271/files/20789982571.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6137/9226/files/fitenorozixivilisefugujav.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dcfb95_a78784cd285443439c40b8fdb00b0149.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1be480_13e6f25f6806407eb041fa5583436083.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7ef1a_2abf092653824d018b42a071bf8e9d47.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6089/5384/files/berger_paints_annual_report_2017_pakistan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0211/6772/files/nudik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9542/5191/files/tifafopojujono.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_off00004e87.bin
e96f6a4f6a30c4c8b830f31dd5388b5a4920da0cfad913e33d0a6cf87aa10a37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E87 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006191.bin
33e54dba2e843d54f9bfc8ffb98ce1e36f2a20ff93053e496b6b0b9b3df823ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6191 9852 bytes