Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dafeafe4d3990962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:01:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8e9be374a947bf9800983e723418055 SHA-1: 9561e2a36746bfb3a1945d7bb688cf85285311d7 SHA-256: dafeafe4d399096222901e065ccc0b540144e4f46525e1bb5f325bd03f781343
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a download for a Caterpillar 3406E manual. The document also exhibits characteristics of an SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links to PDF files hosted on static.usrfiles.com. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lead users to harmful 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=caterpillar+3406e+manual+download
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89c6ad_b4163a7469364832982bbd91bf96fd50.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc10e7_45b405e3151b4f0aa4dc721fa91c27db.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/df4650_76c49876500b46f9a2f603a7240118b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f7fbc8_755a06dfd3cf45859ddc61180b02352b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_8f64d05b11e14ac9bf58b45dd52f82f3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7198/0198/files/minecraft_helicopter_mods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7879/4917/files/31227253063.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_48cf34bcc8344ce7b2b7ad903e84a5ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_ae170abcf34b4db8920d07dbd52a8fec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f1e65132d22e40e49b5d033b17b4eb19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_10ab946123994a39810bca2c818de36d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8664/2336/files/galilufew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3371/4070/files/bengali_movie_arshinagar_full_hd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3672/0534/files/wuwajekixepevinuzubofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5304/6165/files/acrostic_poetry_form.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_off000047c6.bin
0aa7b95c4c8e9cfa12a613c468d5e096a67d77d5b1f99c64470c707772fc7b41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47C6 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a57.bin
1bbd7a4680901a1c4d46308956a2458984e4e446b796454c43bdebe50c796994
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A57 10324 bytes