Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a23d138a0ac1e0bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-28 21:28:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7ac6236474ca2bf7c524e25d30cdaf1 SHA-1: 0d0ce39a6e130675de3171fdac3b1e5367098c00 SHA-256: a23d138a0ac1e0bddc6365ed23d9f92c055ec6911744de7d98a5b8c5e29121dc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is related to software serials, which is a common lure. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is used in conjunction with a keyword that further attempts to legitimize the lure. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with many URLs pointing to static.usrfiles.com.

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=debut+video+capture+software+serial
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b47c0721ac234d118d943dcd9daec2fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ae7da68bce8846499a4a1e36268d7291.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc102151c145408da4fd1d363b2187d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_47e9a429be1e4763a90f3b4f09320ff2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c84418c1503d410ba113c80ac25457ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ce054c7d533441bb908d312701f67b71.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7465/0261/files/59142156035.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1293/files/kilefijafebirakobikavalo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6244/1622/files/verelek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5247/3252/files/snow_hey_oh_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2521/0263/files/apollo_munich_easy_health_premium_chart.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_off0000644c.bin
d5a70b7c13da15f82f56396eee25048fb3e6f3554d71530c5ed6100837b336dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644C 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076ec.bin
5f9b3dca17db692f7dc9497ad3c2c21622f5610b3cef7641772bfb30c99a92e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76EC 10640 bytes