Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4134602174dba89e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:38:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b2f1ad5dfe62662658c669ac863d67a SHA-1: 22d0af1f3cf453ef4f2346c6d1cc24f3ecbd46dd SHA-256: 4134602174dba89effdf6890e3c4e1ea2016fa277c3169681c1913a8b66708c3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=euroqol+questionnaire+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for the lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wix?keyword=euroqol+questionnaire+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d775a9_6f9b5084626747c69367fba93b298b39.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_20766bef1c0c4c12b0bc8654ff61b5e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_97c468cfd3ee45e4b0c3034c15c84f8b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_156e57160c8e470397e946a5bd983a73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_219904eb461341b78c0d4031c6bdbdb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4561c2183f94120b0ed500ba06b6d3c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3f434805ddda4e75bd6a79c4399aa167.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a68c19e79ac14cc0a1bd0bc883cb7970.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_786df7fde3b647fda9709b813914d8c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3de774401a19459cab34877a8135017a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cb5dea_0f708cf9c636495cbdb5dad7a68ee6a4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ligumugazawebamupewav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4607/4525/files/principles_of_genetic_counselling.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_off000065ac.bin
599eab23f1f7c5fd5301f0d09a9562c0bbfed33756dd8644609fe322e6405c67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65AC 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000772c.bin
f6008a3e4e7f4c4cc5752b91ba141f4aea345765861d9fb613e09fc479e4ec67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x772C 16088 bytes