Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba3d87af564940fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:21:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1542159d582e24386e21d52a46badd64 SHA-1: 72943985ce47c9eca171285502874745276ecc58 SHA-256: ba3d87af564940fcfff474421f6e73d525ca2b0e5ac05800d2fe2c8033f3d883
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=free+excel+spreadsheet+amortization+schedule'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a free spreadsheet, indicating a social engineering lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further supports a link farm tactic. 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.cc/pify?keyword=free+excel+spreadsheet+amortization+schedule
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_232ed46eb87f46a6a080e2696533bab1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2813e2_94a83031fd72470daa8363017723d693.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83b1b3_5c6042aebcec465e8f3e931d616f6d3a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4ae4db_f021d34323b34451a5f734e35333b6a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1108c_10f590ad95e64fbea493a57c9751fd1b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7076ad1e52f546e98d73227003e511d4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2460/files/buku_teks_bahasa_arab_tahun_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6021/4425/files/edgar_s_ruse_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0631/0046/files/vacina_antirrbica_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1274/3580/files/intel_540s_series_ssd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9421c8_51d40d98f0f243adb7f588807f2f6138.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/575363_0f1bf5abc74a4b409844f545096fe18a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4641cd3f38434792bf12e4f0fd3a7cff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5360f8_f470f6a643ae4170bd84dfcf3a803f4d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/58a813_30f850dfb4b842659b7d206bd8ad87e1.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_off0000730e.bin
2a6a9c1c7fd602cebd4421dd35c85667f31f0ff617d9c2b4f42ec19f051ad027
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x730E 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008541.bin
8400378e34def62e660af417b842299cf2cd9647a22b02c9fd205d031623dfde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8541 10316 bytes