Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eef965f19c9ae5bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 09:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebb56269e7712847d8b608acdddb3faa SHA-1: ca95c9cbc79a0345487ffdb35a538f68622fdf42 SHA-256: eef965f19c9ae5bd0d2f3694726bde59441748729dc113033ed9bc1d674917b8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links to 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination or distribute content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=features+of+first+information+report', reinforcing the malicious redirector finding.

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=features+of+first+information+report
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e7e4a0_1cc234d9048143cab94dbfd360fbba9f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e81b9_b0969cc59d0d42dcaa4643bbd76dd261.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b9728_a877aab488414c839f451e43f18264aa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc7e8_cb21b4b7e1fd4e4f911cc76ce45ede15.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b972d5_c06931a288164c029c9f30642fc344a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/362633_2005c375f8774e26b4cf779589826634.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_0c57274910d5463792472bbd7870bcca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f929b_9e8d9e7cab42490985e17046356fa2d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1419d63d92f34f3ca6cab4cd2a702b00.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8221/1733/files/berliner_platz_2_neu_intensivtrainer_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7865/4883/files/nijaxosusobofosorelimeneg.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9f2916d2f0f442a685aecd313d6cc282.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a932183e82f7499681b2072342856939.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_off00008271.bin
bb282b85832642e035beeacdef8de3695bd9285a66e280582c0ecca52631157a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8271 4972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009345.bin
6e3202fef5c242b77b7d414c4abf29d6a9b265812e19b427ce479145e897f984
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9345 9936 bytes