Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a81a7048b0106992…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-28 21:32:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee8a5809b780b81b04d118dba58b0f7c SHA-1: 69598f96c46a3f4abc14c67dab06a334099f2972 SHA-256: a81a7048b0106992027d37363a2e2ab42a4445fc62053efb524c87f7d073ceb5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.com', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=white+coat+investor+scholarship
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0456f83b53964426a41325bac41d8f95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_53b723ca448249d7b193bc810be51e90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2d089fc0ad8e456caa0a9e5e7193cf6c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6982/files/rrb_je_biology_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7314/2933/files/fatal_car_accident_reports_los_angeles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6660/5219/files/fjalor_italisht_shqip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8770/8825/files/33481331793.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_565e142e74bb4bff947d7d6f5e03d185.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2fc8fa00ffa9422d9573937e99067c4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_62a5d968ecc846639d3de5cc1a6faf2a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c8bcf3864ee4da09455be502f46e0e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c6c43a1de9d949f5ad10a1b366588b14.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d2a9a602e43c4a968887a957642c7d41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_77221a66c268461892ee2ec5bfdc527b.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_off00006333.bin
d17f727187019bde58a6b08c35dd15c0febdd4b6b9f0204044c2927ce54c15b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6333 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007489.bin
97ad024ba53ac1be18bd80326f46a536b24a3c9360f99ee0ec6ab7b31a493d1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7489 10208 bytes