Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e27ffe688a42129…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-09-03 00:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd41f6e037fc0d6fc13378c716528c7a SHA-1: 2fe20e2943ae5baf27a6adca81ad5e1a26e9fa9f SHA-256: 7e27ffe688a42129877c5dafb1edc52ab88d7e28dacd421017ff8856e8e69633
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on static.usrfiles.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.me. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.me/wix?keyword=jorge+basadre+grohmann+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6345/2583/files/91633161430.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6851/3686/files/texojekotiwaxiwijidup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7678/8134/files/crowbar_risk_of_rain_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7122/3446/files/advantages_and_disadvantages_of_globalization_essay.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sezam.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ec0012_8fda9ea84bf040c5859d4823874a6ed2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9421c8_3b1075ef6b63435f9b7cf4a4a57973dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c31454b5c9f4623b96c73110c8518bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0cbffd95719a48abb4eb29ecff715736.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_63f930eeefe54607b2a09fbba739838f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a3b54b_9699044e65e940ddb49b84d62434b84b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a8f2906ae8a04caa8d393c15974df4cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55f640_3e72ea10646c4238a8aa793f141d93b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_927c2bf494ff478d8ebdfe818e39c2e7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/7858/2171/files/asco_guidelines_breast_cancer_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3881/0010/files/86898217652.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_off000072a2.bin
1c7a30b5d5c32fb72fbea37e4142c154f3f333552e78e5da8d0918132c67064e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A2 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000854e.bin
6345f20388412721b6a3c0c6cd092aaba370eaa87e493c831f2e3f5e9a53c1cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x854E 9876 bytes