Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e503248ad7fba80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:09:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4a8d8bf2677a92b15fc2e0306519598 SHA-1: 1c4ad0469a33fe9db19d71c64d31de973567546a SHA-256: 9e503248ad7fba80c8a8d2bf7df7009c8bfce12aa15b39288ce42638aad69b81
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=the+curse+of+atreus'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure users to a potentially harmful external site. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains obfuscated text and embedded URLs, further supporting the malicious intent.

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=the+curse+of+atreus
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8228/5216/files/66074812791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0558/1211/files/badegawexolilor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7631/2478/files/juzijogaxeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0542/5310/files/sadenukujerivazokosasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8674/0646/files/10886208943.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5aed9_a689672f0eef4835a4613bd4da36f336.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca6aca370f124b1b9c1597a557f422a9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8790/4422/files/31917196577.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6292/6229/files/70022014966.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_92921c305ff04de8b79c4b9f8a4cd305.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4d7cf7449f994085882a662e3ea1e713.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e6092c_44900ce4b9a04fa082ab0933c88b14ab.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_off00006932.bin
57f1879b9c7d1164c4febf92f770a3eb72de4404e235821b82051bb39e194d57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6932 4888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079cc.bin
fa3ee7f58acf96b25a649fd12cf8d4178a76c4e2c342b9c314f46099680c1381
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CC 12036 bytes