Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d039e319db886ff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 04:58:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ba524de57b699e0ec6fec60137ac3c77 SHA-1: a2ec5084dc53e34073e7ba3bac70e82c2a31c133 SHA-256: d039e319db886ff4969ad2e141f94c556c8678332b0b5de7b044be20e4956f6b
150 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.com/wix?keyword=research+report+outline'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=research+report+outline
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ab5ed_2401930007c5488a96e8be8cf978489f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_b207b5a8249c4d13963c50fbd60ba291.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_9b9e4611aa484a7788b83bf4674b0eeb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5d6deec0ed734868ab6adadb3c7a2167.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8004/7010/files/bug_bounty_field_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8070/4405/files/51992817792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7061/9801/files/biblical_meaning_of_numbers_1-_40.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7085/7122/files/24640205906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7625/9735/files/calculus_by_thomas_11th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6290/files/86461502081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7816/4387/files/39142742835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0522/2822/files/27501464312.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/822ecd_95862999b248458b8d166c07d9bacae8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f0e57_23ef613fa615422ba800ab214ead5dbb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f7815_80bf1977bcd24231a1cffdb454823961.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e745be_16ca86a7df9b45afb75cb4e58831fca8.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_off000068c6.bin
9e34f1ee52054a68f95f60a34f2eaa877609bec151ef723c4e41fb26585ae920
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68C6 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079e0.bin
e564f01b770f58a03bfe8f2f70c6d3190a44c8e5f4cc6b7b84288a6cff4ce7b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79E0 10052 bytes