Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bad662421cf673c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-09-03 09:06:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11b4051150b3b6024e5298e9ad8f9a85 SHA-1: 6730c5148ffc3ce1609519d44dddba0d2c6a4eca SHA-256: 9bad662421cf673c161054d8cbcac0411a6f410da890bc3f6c8d7cbe38c8decf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=amortized+loan+spreadsheet', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to financial spreadsheets. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier 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.club/wix?keyword=amortized+loan+spreadsheet
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d13e1f_f6b6e4c5eb564efca52e6c117f4c5fe6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f2646_52c5e89dc8c5406bb412a8dcbce060ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18f527_3810f2a60bc44f2dbe56055e2b0e6d6e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/43d598_9cc07ed2bfd849c78774e9ea36408800.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4725f1_ad65ac402f234510a784b1f98f4cae73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/03ae60_e5e598341d524f7ea348e4fc31ce16c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6d364c43a68e4f07b13599ffe54ea286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2348/3548/files/67728225141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5435/7915/files/imagemagick_convert_to_jpg.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d94ae5_fa3814b4cdf344e88c16a1cb29a52f68.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/95089d_69f9938e1d53446e89accc9d173baa13.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_off000060d7.bin
9d552bca253ef2e6e6914e056cb2ab3b994397ed0898679580dfbde2a67888a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D7 5024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071b3.bin
ff37d75332d32bc935fc6e5cca4c9e49cfe368c1ceb6d2d9bd8ff5fde444dc83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71B3 10564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000957b.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x957B 4324 bytes