Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c58f9c9a47518340…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:32:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3a1ddbacb33ffc1cd0437d31313037a8 SHA-1: 7cbb0e29d56f26c0e23b1776e99218440c259fab SHA-256: c58f9c9a47518340555a06a6625d045159a12c1e30bed564b36c704c44da4ea5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary URL, https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=crappie+guide+lake+fork, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the intended destination. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the final malicious destination or 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.club/wix?keyword=crappie+guide+lake+fork
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8bcd0a0910754205b7599c7901cc42ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_086bdc4d03b245feaa071ecf7d325810.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_f708e04a7a6644848167580968c16794.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8127dd_c7b290e9bc52479e8c7e7120d8973752.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_ec3e70a1a27640bfb088d8bbccb0eabd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1977/1799/files/nawowisajeboj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5973/9814/files/35205945511.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6012/6118/files/25178817787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1816/6167/files/mathematics_1st_year_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2874/1272/files/barmer_bhaskar_epaper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/39186469702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0609/8597/files/9829410936.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f53d7_eaf8e8201dfc434dbe907f87542c71c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_c21c231fa4c34768a255f432e13a78c7.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_off00005fe0.bin
dd768092df17a49b38efb676fb85dc96c10f5efac704a7f824f72f251371392c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE0 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070f3.bin
9828acfc7f249a23d3cae6f5750b8105c523716c08055207c627b1073dc86c52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70F3 10836 bytes