Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e1c50375e87083f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-09-10 02:44:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 239b53c0249b9cfb7f0da6f5a1f4e32f SHA-1: 2b6170954a169ff2f9f3e36b5cf630c372073900 SHA-256: 2e1c50375e87083f66e898872d6bff63c3a1b99c304b818178726bab7a839f3f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure related to a Medicare levy surcharge exemption form. It embeds a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggests a link farm or redirection strategy to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=medicare+levy+surcharge+exemption+form
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_feee4149c97b45a59ea1057943b411b1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce5d00_76e56dab48524620bc9feee2ce7ccc70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_242d8a42896446b8bdb5e110d5094ce0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/234f58_a791c926d88646e4bd47bba05ea076ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_13dc8dc696b0472cbb467f143b3e52aa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_c11f79b13af2461a91448503a7b5280f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/11f207_766283a613a3480e80562e27a2544327.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d2908_a09dfa9c6e2942fc8fe992fd2c36fc15.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b27199_9db15b1325804c4489000e5e4c49a812.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c88839_f3b1ae8d5502475f9c44983a1b88f0a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_a1e27efddb734cb7973437c648a22c8c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1621/4939/files/85627965019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5467/7662/files/fotizinifidaxela.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/80666265033.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_off000063e9.bin
cc714c52c7d2c927f8780c92dff1b3af284e836ca4972d0ecff8aa574f2096af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E9 5804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000779f.bin
cec7971f99cd0c8007647c3203a5b6c88c5888d6ae995e0799629aae2fb23251
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x779F 10136 bytes