Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b398946062da5204…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:21:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d77e3d24b47f6ce621589d40dd1fce1 SHA-1: 59d4d8fd7337b2d690ab929ed47e9381a1144ff3 SHA-256: b398946062da52043c5ee5cb2ce58edb09ecb222fe0db29c564a94ed8b1a4fd8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=cartoon+birthday+song+video, points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links from static.usrfiles.com indicates a coordinated effort to distribute content, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious payloads.

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=cartoon+birthday+song+video
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b85eb0_db43992bb65b41899862cb73379deca0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9757e7_217aa53c390c41028af21693a8a7f77d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65175_b148d2f974004c84815b0d2ddbb07143.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64ccf810d82c4e95b00fd7b0f7cf879f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfbc46_c633993397c148b69bc2218876300104.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8c0e65_d90b419926274c3889858c60481d9afa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d902bb_20b37595900b4017965283c1795ae08b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f58fb_1e6e1e65ca8342098acac8c3c5110af7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a1791_b140a18f6eb54accab555096e6e1bd34.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0361/7173/files/10732691232.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5706/9736/files/little_rock_catholic_study_bible.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ad074537707482d9ef2dda3d167778b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d5dc56fb56bc44e4addb632d64f5d847.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_off00004624.bin
b5654c39524369bdfbb01c8d2e5137f0dd8a5289e6669e3d23e1f15885f0c87d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4624 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057b1.bin
f18d3704dadfab50007c3316c7957a7ba1c507909e2c8e799f2532c17549c4c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57B1 9432 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000077f2.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77F2 4324 bytes