Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7815d782364133e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2020-09-06 01:19:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee07d5422d298a062cbc996db50ead5f SHA-1: 9a789f302e1224635b707d9baa9cfcd6c14d8282 SHA-256: b7815d782364133e68ca144c15191ca2a66aa4bb0a3bc631e7a3c8b8cf0b057b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.club', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com', indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking and distribute traffic. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.club/wix?keyword=free+printable+employee+name+badge+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f9b04_b5a0c88d25db4ca59c79dfa88f1b8231.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b61cf_33a95ed6bfc74cc78305979b8a128c66.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e60d38d172564e7582d1c6a0d27d4e02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac1638_e7affb835824422197a75745215f21fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c57cae_5f88a8d2cd5343608c1becc55a2ec038.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_22c67acb238c4fa8bb7221ff5b373865.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_1735b207e5ca4d57aee3872c04b4aa6c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c5751e6bda844f2b8fa809d0d9be069e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1596/1762/files/pmp_scope_management_plan_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3087/9136/files/hotstar_vip_new_app.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_off0000fe25.bin
2f7464170358b3ef7b23b2b3675c30d9ea398089809aaa80736747e871d9ee08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE25 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001101d.bin
75a12432901b3e6553ff0490a4364bb9422f2cdcea93eac035424fbe90d893a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101D 15868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000141d7.bin
4ef9506ee11a349461550e6b437e3786686b598308a87786035880d16624999d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141D7 16060 bytes