Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37d62440a823c308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 13:40:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f446ff23a93ba66984d58d604a2f7ba8 SHA-1: 2a3cafb42d5fee301eac257910a0d16bdd658257 SHA-256: 37d62440a823c30893305e49ce7ce4563bec5d9ccabe561c6450143d66421e66
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for linking to malicious redirector infrastructure and for being part of a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains a URL that points to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or malware delivery attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/wix?keyword=o-level+physics+challenging+drill+qu
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/38bf1f_503d34529abc456397637f140ac1a9a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc15fbd2af7f40538e429bed6b43baaa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_f0c3057eb1064b73a005b879f5361838.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_382e334395aa4a4f8bcb044adaced5c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9ff3a7138cc3429ea17e92826c9049c5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3040/4502/files/apostrophe_worksheets_with_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6686/5302/files/wigisexud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2860/3295/files/81655924299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5934/7618/files/75308227189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6976/files/72034499548.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca32a8_0fc726e549c848ec829ce8f21a0ad726.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ca09c_0927a207b55741399b1cc30c70d19e72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/432b07_6d960cfb1d2149a3b50f64f4b7faaa39.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c5a5f1c004b43e59988ca5e22f8c7ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f2646_7359e4e1ec084678bc5b897c926eb7b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_1240da935708469db0eafe51af98b235.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_off00007894.bin
90fa52d4494dc7521720f74e9ef6264ea4e0d7f74c7b183a12c29fea5e29fa2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7894 5680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008bde.bin
6e47a0cf9119e7332103c7350e2f09204470b1a110824e962f754eed732051f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BDE 10356 bytes