Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3eea0ace61efd7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c7042cba1c7ce784b28a35006d7cda3 SHA-1: 38251c6a2a5c3a6a485419c07f9c4b34e266e9db SHA-256: f3eea0ace61efd7d7fc306694bc40e0ecc42a0b14e3416948fa54dd5710dd732
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `ttraff.cc`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing the 'American Heart Association Provider Manual' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on `static.usrfiles.com`, indicates a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=american+heart+association+provider+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/726ec9_47d5bb049c0a4210b9aee3fa0091a7fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f4b99_adf2f1f05bdf4e418b4ef9ee75bd3681.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3eed2b_910140aa704747dba04cb690c73953ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c70b9d4424d8405bb3bda691be94c03d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_1c7bbf2bea054c76854c6f0c71ab03eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_a8a004b5a1df451ab9fce15800df1055.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e3b4622226e425fbc95cc7d4cf7127b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/23b571_e7d89b3e9faa4506a6f3ae0b3aa0f410.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/868401_3cc9ba7243be4593a7b010bdd528e03b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_aeb02e2a81e549ae97599c0abe023e11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c5d40f_02c742f22cbe4045a27a85c14196e73f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d6247f754daa4a7dbd816da461b6224e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1c8c6c_41ca40c67ff247cdb8b198cc64ae37b5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e6092c_2557f4595f934401ba279629cd4eabdb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1cd3d2001f3f4b24a3b17dcfecd18bb8.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_off00005450.bin
6eeb9037fc61c4b34099b481cd4937a05fd6a6d330c8c2c224f4e8e4e226262f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5450 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006659.bin
f6dea1cca63b295f877f03e3af374d58ed4e0cb911b10a6cf5850c6b7df35983
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6659 10196 bytes