Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f87cfd37b34f9d90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a00cacd03427fe19408d306bbe148d3e SHA-1: 80712756b5a28c530f49c678cb5f2a6bc7a5a9e1 SHA-256: f87cfd37b34f9d90f0bea3336df4174e925c9438a66f97fea7608dbec7b1e4ab
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.cc. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, indicating an attempt to lure the user to malicious infrastructure under the guise of educational worksheets.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=6+digit+place+value+worksheets+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50de67_1174fc8893c04222846a86f4da99710f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f80014_a4f4c0ccd6454bc3a475e47666c8615e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_dafb59f49d2f4f739a77a604d97918dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e745be_dad3cf997f4e482fa6017e190ef2e51a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_8b68d787671c48a6b2babcd70089c0a5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_c440f73d93cd43faa5dff334332624a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_598d6818cebb42b9a47e2967aa1b1525.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a0bf76ed2e9d4340941d420442a5ad67.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c0580a59b5d24efdaaf91aa64aa08d9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_51b88622e8c044829df8a9d99d2fb2b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_67a45fb6c21245bbb2e7708edcb95720.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_1fe6a84d780b40988e7e4e0ed15cb15d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4a4f14071a4c426f88c4eb5238b1e70f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8204/5853/files/don_t_starve_together_cracked_multip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3981/7890/files/67078849122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5852/8405/files/cat_s_cradle_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9647/1707/files/esvs_guidelines_carotid_stenosis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8693/7248/files/love_collage_photo_frame_app.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_off0000669b.bin
026f9c2904a5b389eb5887d228de8be671086e71f906c7bcc47b24438dfa7b52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x669B 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a05.bin
09ac80ceb4bfa2d2c905a1f321f9e488fb0a66954bd5104ad5c454bbf740831b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A05 10920 bytes