Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d30264623eaf1e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:16:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1dcd5955cfbaa8339b1c5509c6ed858f SHA-1: 972e8c51d9b3bd701fc0ce0664e33e858b07ca3d SHA-256: 3d30264623eaf1e76f7d8398d8ad96dab91ac8d1128d78c4aeaa5908e3ac8232
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for a redirector link pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The document body contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=terraria+skeletron+prime+guide
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1175/1588/files/42769849188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1512/6685/files/creating_a_vector_in_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0645/1094/files/diccionario_biblico_descargar.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8c0e65_9b2a6f1327c74ab5b25b7c898fee0ac2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0bcf16_1f0c203702e045b3a4e901cecac9295f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2d69e7d67fab432a97d0fad4414a40cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e33828_8b281182d8994eceaa593ec2a3f2e008.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a48928_ad2e6d181e7a4d6e8bb069189bad3564.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a9c41132ada4ed8a25eb7fa1c4e5b61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f4169acc233d41eaab9309ee208495ae.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009092.bin
3077da4a96023d95523ad2ca23843ff5b266eb4c5c574ecec53d8f664f145385
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9092 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a276.bin
a5ba3bf50496e0515584dff2ca4b9a79a340b2dea42035961dc1c6770811c220
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA276 10352 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c606.bin
35d3440dae1ebc896564e4e6f70ea95aa3a30a1ac603c7fffbb21b68b8b72e2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC606 16036 bytes