Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6c0f0788420e511…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 01:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30d6021704b89da5652b44851c8bfdef SHA-1: 5825f181a4378ec60e71b6dc72f16a5dc7c47bf0 SHA-256: c6c0f0788420e511117beaca701108c456bba9648d4673b5b989c94dc56f78f2
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.club/pify?keyword=yorkshire+terrier+size+guide'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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/pify?keyword=yorkshire+terrier+size+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5a943_2335d502dfcf4768a310023b27ac391c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/576447_b6628bafcde74855817b63d8dd922e8b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bd5c68_3dbae716a7de47e2a27cad53115c739e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3cb679_360c1baed5374f03a191ca884d61740b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/cemitrio_dos_vivos_lima_barreto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1900/0229/files/understanding_public_policy_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6837/files/automatic_transmission_gear_ratios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7033/files/cheats_for_gta_san_andreas.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_fed23ef654d64ee8a44e55017d867a5b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d387e0ed889c4da19f37f4ee07faba37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3548c_fb5484c513ac474f93c35a6fdbef8197.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db1da1_3a9635722733479c8ed399a32aa4bd24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e33828_cd53ac2698a24b70b46e0b26a7cc5414.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_off000088b4.bin
9d18b4285bf7d440a98d81c03c27a82cbda1b88b56f60c66839c802a69b3872c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88B4 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009976.bin
51a38f93b7634a5044eab2e9cfbeb69d6db07cc197593dfeadfecd6fd2074d47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9976 10444 bytes