Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a00f469c943ee1c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca7827bc263097f5c916f86b2105747e SHA-1: f6353d6682a1164ceb0764846a1d9870548fcbc3 SHA-256: a00f469c943ee1c996b154cb0f7f8fe5c44fba4c30841b172b3c965cc7610341
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. Additionally, the PDF hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to PDFs on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact lure.

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=celosia+madera+revit
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/739437_9c2e044e9e7f4063a7e6c9be4d8fb362.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_b1d93c3d68a14084a2ce47501104c174.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f2dd31e295c840e3af053e1176413e6c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c180215a48c347af82da553412fb9ca4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_1e7e15e66e824eccbb8b504e16648737.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/5004/9192/files/warivilonozagukumuxil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/37925627046.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2429/3796/files/74549268945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/45505734675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8714/8709/files/rekotedenarazub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7159/4911/files/75432839754.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_e969298280124413b72678332965578f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9374a7_6ea93185523549d496110c8f29a92e74.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_6b00dd99817c4ca881e5b7a5ecc0159e.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_off00005ce7.bin
840afe0c36852f574470830e4c0783e63fc1092485de3f458e8c6025c798ada7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CE7 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d97.bin
16ffad35096f6c57b9e3b3defb97a4b81e6177664a0a9ff7eebfc31dc9d1f90a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D97 10392 bytes