Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19fe21be5e5b2650…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 07:44:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ed779530f869296d24ba0c18b2f25f69 SHA-1: 09eebde4e575bdd35736c2b7ecf6ea010f3a6abb SHA-256: 19fe21be5e5b2650aff2214c5a789774da4cdb8b7d91c33e72c4f69131538ab1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary malicious redirector URL identified. The document body text, though garbled, includes the phrase "Hangaroo answers list oscar winner", suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the identified attack pattern.

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=hangaroo+answers+list+oscar+winner
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7015/1061/files/78962408911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9070/6589/files/15527591526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/retigijuxawalolipenolovaw.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7268ad4c4e5245bcb3adf9abdd045fae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ce9be25263ae42d2b74b1bbd6293a363.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d36efc66e1ff4671935da6f60229f0b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ffa8688089a64fd181585a1459adc7e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d99d9feb1f144681b9db795ef12f9348.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a23303dda1464c76afcaca4c6ccba19b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_204a331194f440838d8c927d2a2c01f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_57ff512707e844248063155b12a8eefa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_70961a14e05f4d12a2d9443d7faf2da3.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009fd6.bin
b060118058a0703e1aecf3a51b8dc4fab9fddc9b9e808ef0c4e32a951bc3e963
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FD6 5020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b102.bin
b78acbcffd762a1a98093af1ed135e68883a3ce5c7f8a791b3f3c0376a120ff5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB102 10552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d52c.bin
7a077e8ea536c2417a2e1077343d5849301c4a705b8d0689b8d4749e5c9d6b5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD52C 16064 bytes