Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a559b9bf999713bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 119f5e4ad7db468d39c8939f24b4250c SHA-1: 60312a21cb20498e2944575634b276ea6746b892 SHA-256: a559b9bf999713bb0fdc875e467ce5171f9aa6a129e95f1d1ff97e609e894a94
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com' and 'cdn.shopify.com'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to a potentially harmful site.

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=adjetivos+irregulares+en+ingles+y+es
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8184/2341/files/dtv_channel_guide_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3288/files/wozazemozod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3512/2081/files/mazobeneporewijemiwatifa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/fuzupuragugibu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_193f823078e04e3a98c15875cb611d23.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ff653_63b4d85203464132a0c1cb45d2b0e33e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_733cc0a6ad164f788d57bf54e7117b92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_102c71e3ee1044e289d926c061cf844d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_3f0330fc83db46eaacaca63c9d3b5592.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2acf9ebf1d844d8f8329617911ad02b5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0049ca_015b170b08e243bf83f9e4e3c34987da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79cb75_b6e73a2f1ef042caaba997eb5bddf4ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a382ee_4af99c74aa9c49a0b093f39297655817.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_off000066c9.bin
1d2d30d25f3bdd6440e5d4302aa9f1b9e9a854d04fcda4268873085fcd8d2123
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C9 5104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000783d.bin
3179be6ef52dd0d9ec698ebbc9dc14e447c4f0659a6be9f608af13849d65f634
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x783D 14288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a3eb.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3EB 4324 bytes