Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93b7ab3703e5d9ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 02ca923ffd6a9b594fdcf0ecff7a61aa SHA-1: be7b33775547cfda3dc7e0c7ca560705b2a2b503 SHA-256: 93b7ab3703e5d9ffa4b24eab9fd9a4d407373fcb6469b9dd5af5e132ffe367dd
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body disguised as a software manual. The link points to 'ttraff.cc', a known malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=biacore+evaluation+software+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c000e4c12a145e98246d6fbf9937f2a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_38c043821084448fb437f6f658a03275.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee9d3f_4578b3a8a71945e5a137e8068f1e6a6b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_6f18bdd1aa774591a39b933dc7a0d7a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_557249ec494e4881a9f2d85c22145eb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74e905_56671ab35ef94cd8968e56219d2b47d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_d5072e8db1814407852281a0c60e8c10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ad03d_b8f616233dce4bf69a451daf94096ffd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_e2d97d92878e48478e2797283c6aa7e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5cbe5_fdc9f187b43a49e4b4e110c24bacd376.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3a1035ac50134c5da3e49d72c27d05b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f8cea_ffa01331e6514f238bedef420f172dcf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_55dcb8d9da9740ba95e7494f69c9a316.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97aff7_6ebd858e013a40da918312701f3827b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ff21_4058c7ecbfe44e71a56fa09caa78c9e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0047a4_3420c7f6bfbd42ec86c6989787bc1a2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e02969_7835dbfabb714215b34ac9187dc65f43.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_off00004761.bin
dc9cd5e44c1f1e10a079d209b1d497bceb278f0e33f7d298410499af53c643ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4761 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000592a.bin
0ff84a8d689acab70ba400d5494d50e98aa1d9ae8a33c3366974bf11f4b65852
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x592A 8912 bytes