Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc3e784f718faadd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:52:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 18838d20bf0332fd5ed0795a174ecb65 SHA-1: fe952016d5edf03923d93ee69d26fc6ebe220c37 SHA-256: dc3e784f718faadd6b44e64be32767befd107838ceadaf5f0859c362ddd98e8d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying it as a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the suspicious redirector. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, further supports the link farm classification. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.club URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious 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.club/wix?keyword=utiliser+les+runes+pour+prot%25C3%25A9ger
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_867d8622e81148968513d73e42ceabaa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99afdc_94acf4cb8934457988bfdc724caab2cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93971e_1a8900a8680942209435aee563ecc1bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d2cb3a4d89764a438a4b9782b91d9e0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/96bf9d_9da1f6d73cd048cc99b70fd8b47e47b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_403846e3e56d476aac81bc4cdbfe8aca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf650e_e76e7db667184a7fa9904a85e0ca1ab4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fb5067_7282b7d1c1cf4985a2158af6951fb101.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_ddfee14ab96b4fa29d9963713df4675b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4186/6403/files/yara_international_annual_report_2017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1656/9500/files/zatuwopapuzop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8607/8369/files/quran_arabic_words_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0467/3699/files/6605802957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75904593322.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_off0000b874.bin
d25f1b3098944139f6e44e36521dc5258e4a5217c20475848c3e33014f8058f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB874 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8f0.bin
20e3c0a9edc543006959cc045bf520902b9ea699dd0eec89d3bbfc560afc9be5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8F0 12496 bytes