Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ded146ade5da71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 21:30:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a98c753b6d70af42f675f5f302a17c3 SHA-1: f6feed4d1fcb5421eaf477448510f0ad6cb4f6b0 SHA-256: 81ded146ade5da7162d9e788675ae3773ced2207dc932175eb1fa8b7bc688f45
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as a technical document. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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=hibbeler+13th+edition+statics
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fa32e7286ed54b8caacc51df05390803.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7805abf5b00b486fb236d4d60a8855b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/271e65_4d916e9f8bec408fbd497ba5783db70d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_c7600d83e8504b93abc708791903f8ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fa89c02855b941628bacb9b8834f225e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb3e26e588d44a439b6545c18e965d58.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0668/0484/files/types_of_advertising_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9131/9200/files/93846315983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0536/1821/files/17984466805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7997/5591/files/polaris_trailblazer_250_service_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_69260b6ea10e4c69897655aa39b009b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/822ecd_41a30e82c2a64faf919a7da75a1f4788.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b8529f23e5684facae91fdc610ea223f.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_off00004b70.bin
1c1e35226d99431b5a7d379e01fb843b566fc8236ca73f948cd9be0bf00062e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B70 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d82.bin
f450ba3a5e7ce82230721e65dd6e0750921304e180b7da08a41b3a43f2e92a9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D82 9468 bytes