Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c34c300d8eef56bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:41:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20a5261a7a7a2ca49205b8fd96c53c1b SHA-1: 451d52310246665a43883aea05bdba75588995cd SHA-256: c34c300d8eef56bdda6cef4785f95a2bb232ad72a00699873ee76ebd2a3ead57
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-Ins T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users into clicking through to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous links to static.usrfiles.com, while flagged as benign, indicates a link farm strategy to improve SEO for malicious content.

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=forgotten+algebra+4th+edition+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_dd8414f6ad6949e7bc4a20b950425791.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_32307e46f22b4d13a12dade640d34f83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/804ff6_d177a0e99020438dafa6e4ac1b3088c6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b4c17271b93f480986039a1dbc770a84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0775ccb3b10543b584732e3dc8571d0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bad715f8c16140a1a66ce1fbd0b3af5e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46066584eee14407baa3d7244e503e91.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7746f27624a447689928a2356cdaa579.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97368a_0cbe354197c041c4b379e2dfd0ef6065.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bca44_5fd84a0516d64ecb993bcc2458c6cdec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99965f_f298a653fb92496696f2c1abf84d0f32.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/739437_d9eb23db82eb40ceb6826e5d52fafc2a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2d4662859d2d47b78cebc99902649495.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ed2aaded1c3425d813f5387c4679206.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_off000063d2.bin
2f40e99777f39196d83584570531f1ef73813acbd851cb3cc2d3ee0ee94672e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D2 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075de.bin
79b972414d45fd3d2a5afe107d952e11ad464ce292f51663f80121720224712f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75DE 10296 bytes