Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7a2cbe19ad079fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-09-04 21:33:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 171a138137b1713c0f4481514d871936 SHA-1: 489615008bc3f07015b6524032973c55de60f2a6 SHA-256: b7a2cbe19ad079fb994137d1f5c931bbf0b6a9e76b948d91229345cc9a5390dc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links that are designed to redirect users to malicious websites. One critical heuristic firing indicates a PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, pointing to ttraff.com. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on static.usrfiles.com. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to an 'environmental site inspection checklist template' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. 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=environmental+site+inspection+checklist+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c58c5_b787a6a823c245259e74d602f5d3b699.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_79f21a7c05094935911ba12e0897e3f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/516793_20cfc91ec49d40edaa3c28eaba9add4a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0477fee2ee2e4f7086ad927eaeb3ddf1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/61804c_4a5e95ceb7114b5290f3083f38c1e835.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/628a76_8bd5f067e4154ec087f12bf8c0e7c7c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5c139a_f3e4194e0a154de683bc174be327fb02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dcb5058c29704033828765542c911985.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4c1fa_e76fab23d0d24c56ab0723c8a6cdbe30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_245878996c0848928a6197f09a23fe86.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/966478_3196703dace541cb8fd95f693515eb96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4cd51e_3fe941679c244abb9570b23a76efb4f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3834b_e30b9a5724094364b8ce4bb06c90d2a7.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_off000060fb.bin
1be39184f29a95d783f4b2bea222e6da0b97e467debc72df3bfc8c34888f6221
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60FB 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072ae.bin
f99e38f12afd2373d082957a5117a508538ced4f42df447f59d81cc01d030c09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72AE 9892 bytes