Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cd7df775979e6c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:15:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec4fb01c7b48c39cc65f6f7f823ff003 SHA-1: 1b7c7fc6136bd77a3dd0e01ed3f47c2e9ef411f0 SHA-256: 8cd7df775979e6c0a2b7f8475ac9534f4dac624e6f4daf8458477c53f9d01a4b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a specific malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious indicator is the embedded URL pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is known for redirecting to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the phishing lure.

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=best+pregnancy+workout+dvd
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_d8655100e51c47bbb728ce2e6dd6688b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4b37cb7d5ce14beebf8bb283dede45f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_24fba62cb29844d991cf1db5ec794222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7089/7824/files/divinity_original_sin_ps4_strategy_guide.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_76bccb9b848d46eda8eacd4ab246a70b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b9801a_1828fbe94d914a9aa8b0ab2b0624b524.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de3d83_8f85502dab6a4304acddcf7ae3894cca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f80ec_5cc929c8d3284189973aaf70e5f42a2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_94b3f1ae06434973a1df7ac0ab1ceb13.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_718bb31baaeb4d43b6c8e52a6d7fb111.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67f5f7_967df44628dc4f9aaa1b1db98361b85d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_278e3a57eae84c0eab8999e0be6f1c5e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_cd425f06e66f4a9394af48ebb109a8a8.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_off000072cc.bin
978768811f9f544cbd9ee23610ea0de510462fef700ade0d2c6684d2561b108d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72CC 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085f5.bin
7bd6dd776b75cc0426f42c5956daf89544bc43f359a9d15233a1e3a27812baee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85F5 10464 bytes