Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab48886bbaad9720…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 10:56:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce1f61993a652057bb5f936280669674 SHA-1: dd00014144bbdeef851c7a558fb71519fa60c8b4 SHA-256: ab48886bbaad97206380d311cdaed2d9712b744eca6e34fa5d1473dbcce9db19
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.cc'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com', suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and traffic to the malicious redirector.

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.cc/wix?keyword=futbol+kitaplar%25C4%25B1+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/54fa57_6496e34dea9f41ff8ae8f7e5b59eac45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_682d915c828e49ccae42f5eabca10abc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/271e65_715a512064d04788bb97e0211ab025a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/69b86f_c400f650ee4441a3b86df4e43c769aa4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2780/7911/files/bonded_child_labour.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6145/0654/files/business_intelligence_architecture.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2368/7067/files/xuwalotilidetez.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a58b01_fc28fa405c634df29f9d1f8df65f4d09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18f527_10aef347b3ea4346bdf2bbc1372822b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf257bcf4967410988f926d4b61bbb70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28c6af17d4ba43b6a144aaa7ea1ae9a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc75df98817d440eaba87af0d092cd52.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_off0000843f.bin
84a106442da43e374a2fca001ee504b7d056809039d3ff1d7367c90c4b3f6a6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x843F 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009577.bin
d5b70fd6c3b4b4b13ab036c9427fe7826797db2c062d34b6ba8c75787c9f4533
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9577 15948 bytes