Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d24d2cad74be65b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:50:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e0ca521772dc092e9cf949d60661dc58 SHA-1: 56b948768c0d6a400816cf71ff046ecd16cd3038 SHA-256: d24d2cad74be65b9cf43d9f89e4d564d988c25bb4cb1ab346b5d5d776ca6bd32
154 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.me/wix?keyword=unidad+didactica+las+profesiones+y+el+trabajo'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to a potentially harmful site.

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.me/wix?keyword=unidad+didactica+las+profesiones+y+el+trabajo
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e6083_49899fb4b14b4108a8347d577505d8c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_06a8ecc642944f3d9d3ae9511c90edb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_136a7fb3610b45b89b3d2de77bad39f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_033b8a7d4a8a433488c225d65c27dd5c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28410656406e4946852adc44fe522506.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94ebdc909c7447589fc4695df380f5fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_80842e6c044345498c66d4ceb1ae9963.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_acbb0300b89a465c87ec3d3687d3bd35.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b48b60_e6d85706d9a14ab9a9747ae4a101cccd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b97dd_19969b0d93d14d95af76a19b8158cadb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3af5d69f79524033a29d31b85a9af94a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f76e49bd4db54925b40a48ba9ca7779d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_a12f853ddb0a492ca8234c1323616631.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fd358eb5139245329059b49ec75e6d3d.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_off0000be27.bin
263d2cd1b6149846934590e18444bf1b770f1ea0ab6bd863ab5e49df6e2fc22c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE27 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0c8.bin
8d33c9206fa65d88e2f7f7dbf5568a07b8c93aac37bbfae280e491003b33d1b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C8 11728 bytes