Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2547ce8878b6a59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:08:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d27134df0f48509a3fedfdfc4738e972 SHA-1: 2aace0a1c6b34ea49f59413e60e237b0cf1adfcc SHA-256: b2547ce8878b6a59cbe2804e39c08ed20294b4e00b41b305c9cdfb1338507ba4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=why+buzz+cut`. Another heuristic identifies a PDF link farm with many external links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=why+buzz+cut
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a4828b92555b41358da5203a94787f42.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a1fb72_6ab371deabd644609443e21bf9db851e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7b45f645a8f446e1a05ee991c4a83db5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/299074_19dc5b0e29ea4db99ac17938cac310ca.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8619/8424/files/lebuzunox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6911/0432/files/gauntlet_slayer_valkyrie_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6173/0718/files/sakarusigasuwakuzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1044/9830/files/9299974083.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99bc11497dc34e3d9d1ab12ef2ae3b82.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8de238_93d84f1ea6c74cf88ca4722a26236a6f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c4177_720f000fbf954e5eab8839de0c745111.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_462a32b997ce4dbf8f8589a801444202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9656/4131/files/capitulo_1b_avsr_1b-_1_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0196/0854/files/15778892432.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_off000065a6.bin
b6197c4079386df36882df5bae67de3ba9b8006e62b95d04ac19751dbda73a80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65A6 4676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075a8.bin
04bcf8c8dac480611771a2bb2b87cb3d02b3bd913c667a21dffbfbcd893be032
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A8 10468 bytes