Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f2770380e00d2fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:56:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 311768da361083068c87833e59186440 SHA-1: 840140f5723c752aef98465ff52295352363ac9e SHA-256: 3f2770380e00d2fdbc12cf28292c959311f6972575f570317db7a40b629fb3db
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggests a link farm or a method to obscure the ultimate 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.cc/wix?keyword=new+vegas+ed-+e+my+love
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b128c3a141f74a0eb75a7d75772ce05b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_12985fe92d964c679b808b2fc07d15e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/61f964_2f00418410e842a6bd91f23c73b5e525.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cafc24_f50bcef046b340bd9cc04c1e7e134b9a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6121099b4b3845219d4bbc06114877e3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4725f1_632558d9917f4f919087ddbff8469e95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5360f8_1609ee9f39634e65a12535a95b3a253f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecec20_076292c275304be4b713cd867c4bfec7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e46cd4cd6ce043e0b967df1c11e1ab78.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/36f25b_a7833a29ad134510a8da21a6807b75a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_96ca8690fda74c27bbbcaf388d325fc6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4774/6710/files/liwitikitowifuwad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7482/2044/files/vovibirufigojaxewidexuru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0595/0626/files/5605468515.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3042/9346/files/baby_shower_invitations_templates_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/bezefoguwaturukuwupemajo.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_off00007931.bin
afc0d74ca797edc951367c15fac45d9db20aa5d9fd717c9cad534dc326a4118a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7931 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b59.bin
35ad6e4f0b6256e532b6fb2c4795a4ef113d3803192326b20c21f66cbe131880
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B59 11260 bytes