Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9faac8ef1551260…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf452c372fe8a00248c5b2a7c63654c4 SHA-1: a74331dec3e8bc4a04a316c9d0b19ebbcf1e70a8 SHA-256: d9faac8ef15512600fd2c90ca15bc8147a812c9e9abb266ab21a3b5b08daf036
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=genki+2+textbook+pdf+download, is likely used to lure victims into downloading further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the lure and the redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, some hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve the discoverability of the malicious content.

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=genki+2+textbook+pdf+download
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f270c_bd3167d1c0e049478f00f73b1d39daa3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_de8a6d376c7c40f99085b27e98f8c795.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/49be48_4c9814709f0a4d14bec2c0795d0530f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aff7ca_7454d82cf0ec4846a252a2f62c62210f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ad2ade_6f293dffb6f140ee88008bbeda99b2ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f26ee052378b49ab8788594b0c1bd47c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50c35f_dcd49210d779479abc9fd74961ef1953.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7baf93_43d08f3d608546059021107fde7982f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f3ecb5f568d348a5bf67f3a8bbd591df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_8fcec58c568341e4b62e6d66146d6ed3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_27668b40594c431a8988506002e91c37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc51bb_239ebd1690414bf984f0559f51bdb54b.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_off000053fd.bin
1f869a1f54e28d29c3cc1d1adc0010671d4421c600b329c2cb7f8910b9924a7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53FD 6612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a95.bin
916d6f739d5d3ccd687036ec407e9cfb731fafae705647ac2bb7125f037bb74a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A95 5288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007cc6.bin
bc6413b5c23f66bd90ff0d83347f9b35325eadf08fc0fbe1be6889c42cf5b70b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CC6 10120 bytes