Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 834b9cc31d161045…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 00c31f68cb7e5fbdafb188c8bfdf3a57 SHA-1: 5588c027e1e880e5a186a178c78a5ddea9e222f2 SHA-256: 834b9cc31d1610454153372833c0ee0ffbc519ed73d5cec689980c4233dd48c8
150 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 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=which+smartphone+has+the+best+camera'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with 'https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12f4eb_08f381e91d804048be665c5869b11ae6.pdf' being the first listed. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same query string as the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=which+smartphone+has+the+best+camera
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12f4eb_08f381e91d804048be665c5869b11ae6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d5dd5b56f6ec452c817aecb991107b83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_84db9e038b76482c880203a6b52351f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5d05a729c1dd4c169673ba417321a4ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1decf9_46b9a6445c7e4fb399762b30a30346e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3c460_500a8f97fb1d4913a45cbdbc1ed0da37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_932a3e4dac5f4f908cf08eeffd8b4eb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15a4cccd73704f5798b33229dc70b888.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_5cff891ce7b649db84bcdfa655fb7304.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_53e8f6c744ad4c91b07e0a08e93016c5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_74fe8e30dec540dbb350c48f8d9780eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a48fdee1769d4996ab14cc2f69dff205.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fde285ca2f0545b58b282b894a371ec7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/097bd5_bf204409f2fe42079a5ffdd3efea5b1f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ffee06910d8b4c089bd896cc3b6c75a7.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ffee06910

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000658c.bin
dd1e8988424e57c7633cd95db4b2147637a6a111a0b04b19bd6e61f08f318054
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x658C 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007769.bin
f0e2e7885ac84825381d37627b5c8f6d9cbc31c77830b5e2abb991305878b474
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7769 13092 bytes