Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9110bbb0c09d7342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-09-08 10:20:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e227e474dafb66cdab740937e3925ca5 SHA-1: 6415782e3005d58ae639274398e5838d250c05ca SHA-256: 9110bbb0c09d734241eaaa459518cbbba6dd48424bdf53f8d6f20b04dc175e65
154 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.com/wix?keyword=source+2+engine+free'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to 'Source 2 engine free', suggesting a lure for a free software download. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=source+2+engine+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b0b521_378253406b6e443dbe69b3c3947ddcab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_43f2b408b63a48048eacc3c8bb8ac431.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12dc78_32e95943ac104451998f59ce15e001d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de70664321e94bd5ae1b2183916fa764.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dbbfd0_b3dfbeae6ce345d0b0b3f2009ca1fee8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_29f0e9d0bbb94dcd87ec1044bbeef761.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2128/7080/files/80379069089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6467/1909/files/japevijizedabanele.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/0134/0057/files/inspiron_14_5000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7809/6798/files/apple_balanced_scorecard.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/24d943_bb29d8ad680648bd86418be0a410d8cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f95141_21ccd86352294c6ea85e29d89dbaf565.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f929b_56a910e517d54c4bbf81de2aed0ae577.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_off00006526.bin
467eb15e1a6c655ff3ef549c7fe8f0738c37e10a1dcce476d927ac33fbfc522f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6526 4864 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075cf.bin
c1a16a1f5a08453a3d91e5ce565c77360c0f8a9f44115d16388287637ae03baf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75CF 10224 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009904.bin
d78d7cc1a68daa951b4fbccbcfb906d5a08ad384f187125596154666a45abe72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9904 16060 bytes