Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c93445b67003c3cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-09-02 22:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1493f976be297a0c49bb3a20b5c2716c SHA-1: b32d5d9f05fa8c00b025c01c04509159f4dc3968 SHA-256: c93445b67003c3cde22e69f401967c9d9d0f14e3804f6751eb0a21917e52f9f3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=mathematical+crossword+puzzle+answer'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution chain. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=mathematical+crossword+puzzle+answer
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_89ad23fa5c5d4c0ca8e745aeb109c8d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d5fc71bab1c54a5db60c1976060763a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bcfef_2aae78c8561c486a86107ed3a689e2e1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2709/5967/files/hundreds_tens_and_units_free_worksheets.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30ea26_a35017e00ee842f89c641f0cb02fc93b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/516793_bcd50f7223f44b4c81ffd3a01567b668.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_72047fc3f4ea457f8ebb4da76410827a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bfc436c1bdf3466e97a9b31015e219f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/29c71c_f799c71ece8e4501b2956d2d349ba5b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33ab24_964e3d2171e5494ab83640ea7c059e5a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4493e59051774c8fa2fe4a3c12387574.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_off00005e0e.bin
6c9fff946a11099e53f2491f273b5fe4385691963467f805ec4d96ebc645e616
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E0E 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007097.bin
96bc50847a770800216cea9c896a3a5bf72504db6b7603cfee368834ade70fa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7097 10088 bytes