Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bab9fd9de32560d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 21:26:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 294ba2de48f196d4535c16e81fb557dc SHA-1: d6db83355d0deb06812743c5fa2d5e4a17fff875 SHA-256: bab9fd9de32560d7988a8802680696240935d59bbdc4eb8959bc2d33695b70c3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of embedded links, suggesting a SEO poisoning or link farm attack. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=ethiopian+music+video+clips+free, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains references to this URL and other PDF links hosted on static.usrfiles.com.

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/wix?keyword=ethiopian+music+video+clips+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2a6ec84b551244b7a8abb88feec3d9f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_d637a742277b4e9c90f377231c037c7b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5d2cf3_e37a27550c8d4c979e2757b55d6e3f9d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_76b64c9de623445e8a0c4104ba31410d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6260fe_793487714a9644309c7f42c1b8fe49ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/69b86f_5c7bc1ae32634ae5b03f6fd3909e862d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64d4c30f99834af4941a77d1891491d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e97d1b49d85246f88f14ebaee3a5159f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8c0e65_b2d9c80cf04940ca929ea52d1b82bbca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cbb400a36ca84a078d6a91bcc7b9d5d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_541f1eca55db434db83d7281ede71976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6811/9448/files/fulozitulobunekavemiloza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9986/5756/files/99636149888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9482/6405/files/belfast_city_airport_departures_information.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_off00004b10.bin
cdb48af61986bcea14cf92dc326505337000da0f8c78b7aadbe41650d02fd2e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B10 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d57.bin
89d91d8004b8d3d04acdf5eea271b77ccae8519c5e8f531439d866c8c90b6874
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D57 10220 bytes