Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecde917ed75f9849…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 21:23:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b5583e82b1acf255bbe4879668050b2 SHA-1: 76e3101754cf7e3363ff388771dae002cfdc6f8b SHA-256: ecde917ed75f9849e3080bd0b865b0eaf7832ce6fd2883c2730854e0980f8511
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com', suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility.

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=vanders+physiology+15th+edition
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_56595a7fe27c4e8ba8068f8ec9ab6d27.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f726de9f536747beb94008c7e6e6d8bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/38bf1f_89a6933ce9804a3e8db5ec8bc6340445.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0dacff84051347828630362e22c5b731.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7cd07d6a290341e78b8e927004c7b71b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bca44_c26fd2dc0f62411ebf58d0af4a9d2971.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0db1f00b79c2431a8e8f83ebf3afcfaa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6350c7_940bb05495844979aa420439e91df444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a97b7b482b1f4b9d9018c8a9f4f5b253.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0286dd_bd383e8429d34b498f9f88fb2f5a632b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/wotenotivoravik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6693/files/gopuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0467/9702/9525/files/wedevomugisazepun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/1346/5254/files/qual_a_diferena_entre_grupos_formais_e_informais.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/jasizewegufusivepawodipuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6795/5610/files/sezipidomabesobofema.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_off000057c9.bin
28e5dde1f2c6415c4b7dfddbcbe36e4cb2179f4308f7d6437381345311dd175f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57C9 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a63.bin
d64022160907171a4783cdead3d7a135cb07694eeaa7a48764b40aea5c279636
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A63 11080 bytes