Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec3a1ef48d86da42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 01:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0cdf0254e24495bbda2413d098fdae53 SHA-1: c54094d0ee21a58a1ef8384f1ec44b26ea6ec7a6 SHA-256: ec3a1ef48d86da421cd2a15153748a2305e0325ab4785cc17c37aff45abade7a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a search result for 'Android sdk ddms files not found'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=android+sdk+ddms+files+not+found
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/23e9be_e37abf911c7142a1b72c94bd6a921d41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3c460_75efaa6571ab4d759e8b982dd4b977ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f967ac_87ee316cce9b49d7887d76cb9d69fffe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/111c46_a46a1b09e1c94e51b0f91a1a1e2d3516.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5cf23b_050cf7b846d041f0a558971a8a9e3bb3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6555/7670/files/cerro_rico_de_potosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8072/0294/files/mobatisozogutasapo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45e30f_4e0ee97db7314949b39906d807ae3a61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c618e9_6b36a74415c143259f07bb33e3ae1b64.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9757e7_0006acc6c90343a6b04d9d2a746e38eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_38d7b0e6c97e424aa457235151730891.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/405339_e655e31278a343eca51c024e0c422d75.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5125/9803/files/bookworm_adventures_2_for_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3501/7884/files/nubaver.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_off00006eca.bin
d550af5f647e5dcf51f16f6e5c26192e231f5e8a26046d1cf64d296f88c024ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ECA 4896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f5a.bin
7da2ff6964bdba10689d770c79a2a2ad935787dcd6e00583698133051af2d147
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F5A 13936 bytes