Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f988290d112c1fcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 22:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dfdb5a37d1258ec4bd5a38e0fea6a005 SHA-1: 3e24196d45eada9cd382cf59e0c6ab6d7627e373 SHA-256: f988290d112c1fcf718f153482b0d2a788e10d2b8d21a7d719273c5efb9bfed3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=who+guidelines+hepatitis+b' which is also listed as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary purpose of the PDF is to lure the user to this malicious URL, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, potentially for SEO poisoning or to distribute multiple malicious payloads.

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.me/wix?keyword=who+guidelines+hepatitis+b
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/111c46_58a447972cc24bc78fa23262c8cb493c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb6612_6d24add3297d43f094282d1580046642.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8bbd7_5e575b3f850b42259fb5a03aa8586796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/fodozusaduwesamevixamemep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7257/6922/files/59145276716.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/30553092986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3497/6157/files/mafogijexoker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/qatar_airways_cabin_crew_uniform_male.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecec20_e9f07b64dc4946b1bd86328f43968971.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d902bb_ca6ead88937f4765bd5d2812b216e842.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/70c1f8_93593330240544858a2b3da9c62262a7.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_off00005bbb.bin
20f09d86a1596eafc2e636094f0a2cf1c6085312fe5e7ed49852eb5f745db164
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BBB 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006dbc.bin
d369f537c470832de3c9baada6ec9d86c45d6d41baf64a53b4c15f5cd91c7746
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DBC 9648 bytes