Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0d152db53966fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b520f0c74a8b5e80af548f8e593f2dd SHA-1: 4115c4a3031c866297642bb2ac36a11f78e3ac04 SHA-256: f0d152db53966fb3205698a32f73f19cfef35d61d54ea6d548e030fd83c8e94a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=good+love+is+on+the+way+tab, which is also listed as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy.

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=good+love+is+on+the+way+tab
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a1fb72_fe68acf7d2384edca65f154e356fe794.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_22753cedaa424edbbe5fa513a506f6e2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/affb4a_a93a8647fb074a50abe891426dca1058.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c3584_eeb02d15663e4b5e8f75998c3a051613.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e3438c9ce42e43fda0f973d6262c13d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/162fe6_33ee961269b943baa4a045de9d7c91a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f197_1fedd2d0468745ee939abb797d74e7ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8827c12f9d7a409fa60c8322755e3de4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2381/0203/files/3297402610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7916/4314/files/cat_2020_paper_hitbullseye.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6028/0992/files/bell_dashboard_150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3188/8035/files/rimujubujebulop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8094/1721/files/11874686115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1797/files/automatic_voltage_stabilizer_circuit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61286624564.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_off0000563d.bin
eee4b5b5d08755cb2ad5ecf9b9584513e812024c6138210332e091697ccb5440
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x563D 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006830.bin
d3fbd23cd98f215e283377a80ec0556031c4a6cfaae3800b1fd5b05260b7751f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6830 14944 bytes