Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1b54247832530eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 02:30:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4ae28232c1b81ab91e28ed81ca87a0d SHA-1: d308b0c86419822645c3b616703ce681ca0effd5 SHA-256: f1b54247832530eb9960ac98ed8d265447d96aa58a17e994a6a6a638c4d4bb5c
154 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 sports medicine patient advisor. The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDFs hosted on static.usrfiles.com. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the redirector link as the primary attack vector. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery.

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=the+sports+medicine+patient+advisor
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40512e_98985cda358c49d4b9036d74d8ca16fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_4126aa9a8f5e40c383007c8aa442f324.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_b44795c4497149419dab7e8c88097e03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f71dee7c754c49a1b475d2b705e2bff9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2221e226f0e647fa94630d322fa78eca.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1928/0288/files/prefix_and_suffix_worksheets_3rd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0184/6688/files/4091507873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2693/2124/files/cooling_tower_load_calculation.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/432b07_231701134c9f4b169ab3187cbb939ba4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_c3de54e5422c41b09ba3440731536e92.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6374/6200/files/32104692158.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7492/0347/files/58738377958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7542/8512/files/ch_play_android_4._4._4.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_off000053d2.bin
6e8dd08678ae252bd9316ecabb00f9f189dece3c035c2bc981204cf3646dfdca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53D2 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000065b1.bin
15a72c8250d89dce96499f57eb295ead4e1951be83a0e7ace11e3f55d5179efb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B1 9896 bytes