Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d180cfecc9824913…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ea8299361397e8fb1240a8dad3f77000 SHA-1: 9c1630e194d97939e72d6261603a212dbae90bf2 SHA-256: d180cfecc98249133117020e3b703d35c2dc9cadeb16238b7db53c26bf7e146f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to a malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised with a keyword suggesting it leads to a story. This is further supported by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic firing. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and the malicious URL. The PDF also contains a large number of other embedded URLs, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, which is flagged as a link farm.

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=the+boogeyman+short+story+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf07b1_df88832cbe324d3b959613ba92e5c68e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/585b1d_2fb3575aad304bb68f52d2882b920f79.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c1c9d490aab846f5b80f94d44adeccb7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6389/2375/files/lurivexarapadifamezado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4009/3846/files/5978432296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/48465164240.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/fallout_shelter_the_raven_flies_at_midnight_response.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9587/5989/files/nijavirojaji.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cafc24_ae71fac4a97747f1914c256341ee935c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94d27aa776bf44f5a4c7e6f533809d00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_d337be4407714730bd000d17088a8093.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c336f6b72fef46c2bcc4e53015fc24bc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8de238_cfb74ceb0096468a8fbe58acaf841a2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d22fd146ee264c92974c63edcf25287d.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_off00005d8c.bin
e984b7603d07687c40fe5519f7d124bf81f11f905e0b9011a9e57d8610b5e7db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D8C 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000707d.bin
cf2c9e5e958e2023f3237c33f123fe11d658ee8d7942700601b13eedcad73bbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x707D 9976 bytes