Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95f7c93456fe0f0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 06:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d2e2570372f68c1f7f4ee45ffc196c46 SHA-1: 8c523dd83b78a057e7e03af21e9c53723e30f841 SHA-256: 95f7c93456fe0f0d8cbfa0ddcff93cd6dc189dabd461409b25092c5a555ea381
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=wh+auden+age+of+anxiety, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

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=wh+auden+age+of+anxiety
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a8665934cda84ffdbd7e28cbdd013b34.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_20cc7e4667424dc59be3dfd229417251.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c8bc529c4e34f1496d0b4591b5addac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_385dd0bc74064aeca4d26ae599aae002.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b19ae811a6e5425888552086771aff93.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b40ca334f3f34c06ae4f96d28985702b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d0003d6e7db749eeb8e3909d91259118.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cf6d042501604a5ab710fa21e3333053.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_667933dfe85642a585d3573aa8fc227a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0ee598425d8f409abc7629fa27cc1dae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c7f3c03dff740008ea03e24f6f0d243.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dd478a87a217432d8bf1dbebc761b52b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_620d184dd9a9432389054d018f17e09e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f20e34dc86bb4b579029d044e266d776.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1854796f68aa48ba8ef2d54570f67e0b.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_off00006b0e.bin
3e81044af8a3f3f73b89aa4cd1eeb923792e2c61196f67d37024bfa25ca4a719
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B0E 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c53.bin
bb65e72f9f0185726b46b76a449ceff11d77cca36f5aff99b0a253e60a8e0c97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C53 13340 bytes