Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b563b172b2496b18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 07:55:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9d16fd79ced34be8e8e33c69cb164df SHA-1: 277c25ca24c5549dc0196883d3bae064692d2eb6 SHA-256: b563b172b2496b18b1eac1c99341b10fbc318496f64125e3bc5f5a9aed9f0e13
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.me'. The document body and metadata suggest a lure related to 'amnesia memories full for android', likely to entice clicks on the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it's 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.me/wix?keyword=amnesia+memories+full++for+android
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5eff75ab89544472add42aa72c8f1902.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb6612_158abaf0b75f441ba9ab29dd5a800b2c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7acab406c2143de8b869b3fdc374bf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b65acf_66c10387b0b94cb4829558bb70aca71a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0641/9367/files/firefox_focus_reviews.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74133662670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0219/1269/files/nulujogefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2831/files/git_which_branch_am_i_on.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1854/3523/files/53463121617.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_e99864830b2c4b8da0eca20c27edd747.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5de1df_e92818c7b0e64d3f8f5e0fb9a0ff2816.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/911c12_9c5ff7175887424ba925e771bc426255.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/430cb2_827416624b4141c0b19a95973083b63a.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_off000064d4.bin
a7a12ff0dc5f81c8d4f1ad919a53358031efd5fc56f17d8a7ae808f6b0d2efb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D4 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075de.bin
29610d7749a576c323ff40c4a83812b648377191d6e4521791bf5e9fd8d9782f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75DE 11864 bytes