Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfffa72eb699a1cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebe4181c4b3df19fb7c45c3a093e0c31 SHA-1: c1bb7bfbbfe5cf41b115ee55005fe61b2e99057c SHA-256: bfffa72eb699a1cb11d9b490aa3d377595cc86de72309b59ec043485d9e52052
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for a redirector link pointing to ttraff.cc. Additionally, the PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be a malicious redirector link embedded within the document.

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=the+complex+sentences+with+adverbial+clauses+of+cause+purpose+and+manner+%25D0%25BF%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B0
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/105a8c_ee9c9abd46264475bee835294cae772e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_870f38f1880f485db65ace1972aabca5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_d12091cc6ca34a56917ef802f9cfd461.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3102/0198/files/wikaxodelasuwenumukena.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_76bac145d3f942f5895190352fac18c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a0445fbf03441d0a8e13c78aaf8a6cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_387f52d9b7074d188f73973dccb7d81d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1cb4107600054da8b5f169b8a7abdea4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cf392_8963222d8b0742fcae1062cb4c5b01e3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa28568802844c82bf3acaf25de470f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5feaceab535f40989b1c48f2273993c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_854749b94cf34baca9ab932ae6fd90a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/88a84f_03dfe46aaeb543e1a7e4ed7e88144181.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_off0000f90d.bin
a02d68ef2c7ccdf5a958aea577a3b060a8a18f8480fa07efd9271a27009302b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90D 6412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd3.bin
cc85592c79466fb44616d63c49bc3975ba7e5ed55fc0270d15a8375eeed5f53a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD3 10464 bytes