Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec2487db6ed5b81a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 15:41:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd8ad979c79a156c0f1c80f096f85086 SHA-1: b94a602e7c28d519acb6621947e097d20b0c8914 SHA-256: ec2487db6ed5b81a1e581d952723fcf8fac28071f12e16715a701d385d218cf9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on static.usrfiles.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.cc. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, suggesting the PDF's primary purpose is to lure users to malicious infrastructure.

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=2019+goal+setting+worksheet+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_12cdad824b15451aa7f3ac4998643da9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c41c1_a34830ea46e94652b36f2cd0d72c2f6a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_06205787d8f742418bc3961336617df3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a3b54b_d06efb376e8340bf8beabbcc691ef4a0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/9279/5552/files/64594151873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6177/1430/files/38769288106.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b7182_04fafebd297d4916a3b2d312e58934a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b4172_7e69abeccc8d47509d899ccc360d1648.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97368a_48e89df5dd014cada86560fed1c593ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55cc32_eb4c30cc61ad46108dd174eba3c9eaea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34ec99_19e469e27e774e488536126f4f479915.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ea9b6_ed7c95601f6947c48c3ef3d78225dcbb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f7357_94595f3d22cf42edac79d6517552c3f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_a53e5acc1e4d4d20a41f9dbed5dd7c63.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_off00008922.bin
491ce35b0baf23bea609b16716454169c0e0e3258a59ea24885696e4284eec47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8922 5848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009d1e.bin
9492b0c47583f7424f7a99a23bcd00743d67e804eb0771740f70f5d9fd75880a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D1E 10240 bytes