Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d27bc8fa715a9255…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-09-01 14:50:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 28798e960db4cbddd8c91341a3397c7c SHA-1: bd23c03d100c539fd3d5edbf333c7dd794014f11 SHA-256: d27bc8fa715a9255c9c3d74429ae3dca1bdd5903cc9011365a25eff0e2091961
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to asbestos awareness and includes the malicious URL. The presence of a PDF link farm further suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link.

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.com/wix?keyword=asbestos+awareness+toolbox+talk+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d935e_8f4a844c594844c9b80ff191096fffc2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59435c987f8843dbb520fb792944f9ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79e0dc_e21c90bd77414ce4947d83ef3d4cbf6a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d86841b94df94878bc8ce70eb735a604.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cade67cea84a41fc9e88258cc3f9f00a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1610/0776/files/absceso_perianal_manejo_antibiotico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9848/9503/files/topical_bible_study_outlines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3618/0634/files/85967860120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5210/3842/files/44490476461.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064a2.bin
58d1e509700af089d6b3e394f818a9c7dc79d24c0da921909493196e374fb228
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A2 4856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007539.bin
43a188b446264abdd01f173357591da33e1f4d75e45e0b3bade0fd74f10a2de1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7539 10796 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a10.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A10 4324 bytes