Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38cd463d622f040a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-09-05 00:14:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d3c256f990d9388a9d9c9ca7f1b6392 SHA-1: 3aaf416a0ec2ae57f681d19b0cf4d5e4c7bf5817 SHA-256: 38cd463d622f040a73ef4bd77e3443a90607051e16281ca70847a0d0cc3b6a01
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to audio interface manuals. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to serve further malicious content.

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.club/pify?keyword=behringer+audio+interface+umc22+manual
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7cefa9_de10c80f50164fbe8b885eb997b41106.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/739437_ce28cf591a594f1eab14a446e69597bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/035627_6c50d44619ed4702b30a2084e4a456c6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2a2e8e66c18a498cbc81d98abc945bcc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/685707_e09f5f2434de4a6696acf8b02d013b08.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/64989875230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2092/7655/files/ruxegunagabe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_fdf0090fa7ab46168ae5983129fac5ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_09a1505ba1864445ae4780b5e3ee6aca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ebbcbd_8507106e83234b9fa278ce6af1eb1b7b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/120874_1ba6655f6f6840e0ba26d26481c38a56.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5c7528_6f62d349cb86465883818891ddbf73de.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_off000086bb.bin
a5e74f259721faa89dab0cb15fa4aa5876995fe1a243d1965479cada7352ebf8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86BB 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009919.bin
0ed12e130b9b5f17fc97c5bf4de4fcd5c7192a8e9ec34907a1555bf661357074
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9919 10644 bytes