Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fec48f1fa538f3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 09:13:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21dcc015a1b67174c54863eb989f2cd5 SHA-1: e94db4a3d6949fa5f0f7807b676042ea150d822b SHA-256: 8fec48f1fa538f3db68f30268c7295223612c4bb106bfc9de8fbf109d4d27306
154 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.com, disguised with a keyword related to sheet music. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or a method to obscure the true malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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=ride+on+time+sheet+music
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83d902_7d38e83f4ece431a963142533ade672a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/43d598_c5ff77ba62ec44f08f14e7613125c688.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4dd980_7386ed91f4cc4023bdbb3bb66eef3cc6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5174e7def6a94be988f14b32e2cadd09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_157103e6fcb244e4ba2deb1739f34d33.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1329/8581/files/sokawopolew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53607129813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8951/6958/files/vamuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zupapinited.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2358/0830/files/apc_br1500g_back-_ups_pro_1500_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4a9d6_2310ab1562d8406e985a6a7faaa7fe6a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73f3b0_e2f51c6f797f473697ffa645fceb92d6.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_off00007450.bin
fb0239ecadbf02c1fea3e339420b945488dfbff1ea6e3f4a608df6b0ea5ea7f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7450 4848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084b0.bin
5e169ff0952b236507f9cc1c6a6ecbfda7d2de77cd6d8f67784f82f7127999bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84B0 10076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a760.bin
b59afbb2f683942213df284fd86cd9422ada0c5f1ffac7698db8c94a40390bc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA760 16100 bytes