Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92af9cd32c6a8fe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 19:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5392a75cc50e8fe0da83d266be4b5f8 SHA-1: 28071ae32b25520a53cc5e2dd2c6210ecdbd4f72 SHA-256: 92af9cd32c6a8fe9ac994015c700f54d7ed197d1bfe32930c9802d9b7fa9d076
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a malicious redirector, with numerous embedded links pointing to a suspicious URL (ttraff.cc). The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary redirector URL and a large number of links to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate 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=srdp+aufgabenpool+mathematik+formelsammlung
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c20ea7_0065eae0110e400ba0a09eeb309e1520.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1108c_afacaba13fd8427f9293baf78775aadd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_1dfeab2df2f34e6f8c3cfd462a81b1e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_017512ea0d8b4b4b91fecb44656989ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8506d_115dbb9f68944563a045d3492cf20ed2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aeff4ba2c74d4a128f8b9975cb84a643.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_6688061d5ca346e9ab4905c43cfd4e81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bdcfd85f4cf94ac19686e48e7022ee2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/913720_6cdb1ad7df5e45698b07ade448ac16a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b65acf_d730c8fd9a12400e85109693bb13d261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1848/4888/files/parasitic_diseases_despommier.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0407/3880/files/83962633208.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c92885005f1e4e63921941a4326e60d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b107720b1cf5421ab279440d713f8153.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_off00006838.bin
cb976c499b042943c621d92ee82ee5c49207f320e09996582a583c43ee69ca50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6838 5764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba2.bin
5eb6d62fdfaafdf087ec30e0560cdec10bd4b7813bc4268d95a5d016e56359dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA2 15512 bytes