Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88d2f71a6891ca44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:23:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee2c59debd1c247320839052ae9583ed SHA-1: 0c5cce89d432a2a08918553f55f1bf710d89aa53 SHA-256: 88d2f71a6891ca446d0e3e19f2152c2f47146e7e4d1bc9cb49efc2f75c962026
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'The secret. download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.cc/wix?keyword=the+secret.+download
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_465373ec0b344726a94903262a0b3410.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d432e32bd3b54e0988582ef2b3f4adce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4ff69_9854c6b5562e490bb6837f7cbfd6560a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8520/9512/files/wizobuwazesitax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4107/files/case_study_of_a_child_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4684/4054/files/data_smoothing_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6835/0626/files/22870452161.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4d8a4bc43a6140498cef211b3bd3bf4d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3450fa8f60ba4974a974c5ba95025200.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cde69cece01944fc9a72117725dfb31a.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005265.bin
9a4ae384f766f2296057f780909ab9e1d5c29cff486a95e7d9195bc0d8b65506
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5265 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063c1.bin
d880868188fbbbc0aca91182df3432ff00bc5ad71403a8b3bfe7ba1dcbfd599f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63C1 2116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00006d63.bin
416ed679a235c1c429a877fda3a86ea4c1ed1a7a060ddb9b27e11a49ea401886
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D63 11576 bytes