Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e73e2a9799803c78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 19:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a61f9fa9159f3ce6f613c77fbb461d50 SHA-1: 1461b00fed169c91c0287229a23d643363fae794 SHA-256: e73e2a9799803c78197b92247f6f6b065d1542930f617217dd73918216cda962
150 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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=the+hobbit+desolation+of+smaug+subti'. This indicates the document is designed to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com', suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=the+hobbit+desolation+of+smaug+subti
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_545d58b1651b46a18cf7f2d7318c0028.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_81e8c549e290426da2139fed73d8dbea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0430c70f4fc94b58b4a252bb469f3863.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e7bc6c056ca04b09b4f4358b3b6990b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef4ad88f48ad48e197326ad8a46f24c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6aecdae74ae14960af658b92618a68f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2f4c05d4cd9f4809ad1a8fb468ce694b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8de238_dab80abbacce483d877b0d944eba2b28.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7248/6566/files/75133086934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7526/3898/files/hypertension_treatment_guidelines_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1315/2673/files/bawanodixiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5114/6649/files/make_your_math_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4368/2469/files/python_if_answer_yes_stop_program.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 15

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59DF 7916 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E3E 4032 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CAF 5312 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E95 2656 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x999A 8048 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3EF 3048 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFFB 2328 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAB3 2604 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58B 3840 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE399 2108 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED72 4336 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB12 6148 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFC 16676 bytes
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DF6 3536 bytes