Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19be30823d6166b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 02:39:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4de4d21ca6d95a9929c2a99feea329e SHA-1: 08ce8a17b2e693afb6329c420011270357d51ef7 SHA-256: 19be30823d6166b3a3e77986ad0f835ee80e1b17ab5bb138d847153b1b87a657
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=sanyo+tv+manual+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a search result for a TV manual, indicating a social engineering lure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many of which point to user-uploaded content, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier 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.ru/wix?keyword=sanyo+tv+manual+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c4177_fb8ed37e49d347e0b8ab0f117fdca79e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48d9a1_cee55459233b4215b10425ff0ecb0d8a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_60ea1bff23664044a014429b477a79b6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9424/4516/files/taxajetutepamogelugizeje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5595/5619/files/sigma_aldrich_catalogue_2020_20.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3769/5906/files/chest_workout_plan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7474/7558/files/19536649863.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/963627_1353f05e0e65406bbb39bef7e95472ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6a60fd1361b84521a6891fcd4932acbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f3cb45_64e46bc8e8ec42a4a7ce460d40f2ffdb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f9041e3a4ecf47f2bb1f5f26774a73c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de1f308bf5e34aafbe3b8548f13ecdf3.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_off00004b7d.bin
d1d46eefa3fddd6e46017ce77fc1fced3496407ca98e710e4ed744053f23d71f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B7D 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d1d.bin
3b284f7e30cd4b89314bad391ec9c023528f9d25294dfc875ece61eb2b901bda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D1D 10132 bytes