Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ec24e143e62df63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 23:00:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9bf20dde160745421fb178e82c9eee1b SHA-1: 4c1c91b3e695e5aa1d9d9e1de92e1f7a3400bac3 SHA-256: 9ec24e143e62df6379e136691c596a276517827db42cbea2df0102bf847ded39
150 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 link farm. The primary embedded URL, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=incident+report+log+template+excel', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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.club/wix?keyword=incident+report+log+template+excel
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_91535c8b0e1d4282bde917d7e437ca87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9f6a24_c16b3cc05c7b46a699be794dd3c9e380.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d7ba0f_0b389580e2da40b1bc6273731a2f2d96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5cf23b_9afeb7e8917c48078203237fe4567bbc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_40d99541003743a283f90b7aa6cf2546.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fac845_dbb4c54de727462a99a415c97e33e1f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6e6e44d4e4bf4eafb1fee7e3daa17d38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b50ae81c0c974ae18ca70c8758801094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9191/1066/files/2702692751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5428/4450/files/83125647660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6152/files/16162720543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8583/1080/files/scooby_doo_dynomutt_hour_episode_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/musuvagexas.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_off00006965.bin
e043b7bf73f266a1a00eef591ea3bed025efdb9e91e78cb2f5a1156ee7bea2e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6965 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b14.bin
8d89a3c40ad19a73318dd4a2d47d94b0c3210edc67164a92aadcf47ede75aca8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B14 10112 bytes