Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abb476b57a787e0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 08:01:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e22395021e5d72f155e3c8f78e7ae490 SHA-1: d8f28ed5902a45ee24f6b53ef8f882da59e6d249 SHA-256: abb476b57a787e0f955c9da3f8dc0123b68be2dbec07f240c593121a27accac9
154 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, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and also references a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. This suggests a link farm or redirection strategy designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=idalberto+chiavenato+gest%25C3%25A3o+de+pesso
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_791fd0c048c3440aaea525b831fe53db.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_396b74fddcfa4f3ea21613a5cf13104d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2703d6f23054d5e99f2ec4970135d8d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9410/5509/files/dimob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2230/2888/files/82207664501.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3340/2266/files/43656479449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5646/3015/files/10452356059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9360/6048/files/zelda_ocarina_of_time_3ds_walkthrough.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8457/7956/files/11259617155.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8851dfdb54e04661ba2ea098443a24b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7859c7c65faa4e118d26c53da8b0fea7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4dcae3f53e624f2aa444ceba4c10c12f.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_off00007151.bin
3d0ee57339bf7993b0e49c95bde2d20329c5044d8f03bb7820da9fe17a8676fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7151 5792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008463.bin
d279080edde1117afaf3c39ab066205a7dc6184f7262621ada383e62a561a069
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8463 12696 bytes