Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9b9bd940f5f36fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:20:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1eacedb1257ceb125af39629b97f76b1 SHA-1: 8f2d29d6ab23d62cf50104bd953de148286f5091 SHA-256: e9b9bd940f5f36fe80334bdcdb73f15e90832f386dcd99b3de74b48b04f2c290
152 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 pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=zork+1+map+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDF files, suggesting a lure to external content that likely leads to malicious activity.

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=zork+1+map+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_670f1d55e6fd431d8e0f10b7bae9f2f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6908d7_7c35855155b84b03a66c99696e6de239.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_b7866bb59af1469c9252854ace52734e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e42ee3_ab9ce40236ec412694be81a716ed0de9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_4f6d1a642ef9432c92e223df829cf8c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4117a9_7764f506d5ed40c5aa33d745d2b5a491.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_4e5e3c20d6904e0fa5de73c2cb133bf3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a8ca4a5a50c47028ce5fe13b746f482.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc15ef_4bd4f69a8aa14df0a578b840dde058b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48d9a1_8c99393ccb4a4935a50ab6100fb03e5f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bf302_cf0183b116da4d9dad3a159605b0aa25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ffec7ef8bf841e1aef717cf53b69edb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/277b62_1409f5856aff4ca598df9ddc3f515f35.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_off00008b11.bin
f5df9e9ce5d83752bc866f00551bd94bebd04517a3e86386c639bbbde3d27123
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B11 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009d6d.bin
9757daa89537a9ab9c10b049050dd1d6c7b5f45580517778ef687c4e80c3f14b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D6D 5052 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae8f.bin
c07c7fc1412f454f80de912b28d83b022ea2a6e5e24642fa9122d41fc16ba58a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE8F 10592 bytes