Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6e1f7f8eb8d72b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 15:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 98355b5e1013512d247e78e96079f5ed SHA-1: 902f4bc32d9981cdda833c5f6542fb988733896f SHA-256: b6e1f7f8eb8d72b3583abcadfecbf8c34d8c08a48cea0a7018c5085a380d3e9b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised with a keyword related to a game. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated programmatically. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for the malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=hungry+shark+world+skins
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3c460_cc0bdfa898eb449ea1f20eb13307824a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c9e49ccab4d2473b92c51524267b7cea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ecadc_249ab3da3dee48878b44c2585ddd9aa6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f47e6561fc184c4ead6c241b649ad407.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6116da_8c58fd35aa2742e9807082a0136cb2ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5d2cf3_bfd44bfc2eda4263ae3fad7df4c0971b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da91eb6cea424e249b9b5cf871653045.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99965f_3fc32f3639ff4ddca85b2c1486a55a9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b972d5_6f7fa017f11a4ff4adc259ad1535a0f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d08a0134108a41e787762ba4e8b11739.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18f527_904929887c6a4bb49766663b880a9df8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_a3d9bec47845435ead0bdf06d8b4f872.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64a5360b754243ffa1bec505528476f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9d869b_8158c8bbb3a545c794f96abacf09db77.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5d2cf3_9cb55fe3e9ae4b11b076a575fec78771.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ff21_7105284538b649dca2ebe7b50126e4f5.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_off00006d67.bin
5192fed50b22ff39f13c80123e376e76448ca1385ea3f24c67184045ed988064
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D67 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f84.bin
8ab976a8bf31d6512a5bfa46b6b774370040ab2088143558c12ece99204d36cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F84 11072 bytes