Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdfed29224ee41e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-09-06 17:30:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2827f6f6fd3963cbddfa2e0f0dbd98ef SHA-1: 4161044601dfe4317c7e425e7b1cce986d1b9ed8 SHA-256: fdfed29224ee41e47a6515f27a0538446b291de6f7f9cf12b95c51d7eee82fac
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to other PDFs hosted on static.usrfiles.com. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.link, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the redirector URL and references to other PDF files.

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.link/pify?keyword=iowa+reporter+aaron+calvin
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83b1b3_24ac0ab17f54421d96a5a30ec9d62886.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a91264_c4600a4494c24956b317a5f798fb25ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/285be4_9af6b2407e3b427ba343fa4f697b6129.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_953e6decbe2a445cbfe6efe51b00db57.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/72b0e7_3a46a18de48a4e81b677d3795579a7d4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/6121/5131/files/batch_processing_in_spring_jdbctemplate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1745/3211/files/furujidexotominab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1791/0941/files/kedej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6616/9246/files/34238694645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2359/7725/files/49426296699.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/sipebevutonasepisabadezij.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34e21e_7fd0a445f2d64cfaa8d1bdf28648df01.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf14a4_adf6292cd05148e5842433c43b0943e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97368a_bb87ae37ba1c4a8997422124c8ae0637.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/921909_81a4cacfc5f54cb5834b3f256520385b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2ce1572d88a8459ea65018126ffc888d.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_off000074ea.bin
b38c316b496b4239c9979d485613eec15bbacd8c4643b1ff8ab5f852329cf7d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74EA 4836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008585.bin
b09eb99caa19d3b1e46687272e41ca8c27859ed882f7eac6ccd49345bae16f6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8585 10796 bytes