Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4504f8e6e98920f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:50:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdc34da73216f42029ac59bf32e488a0 SHA-1: bdfd9d8fe4be284f4c1b828a765a92e9288828ac SHA-256: 4504f8e6e98920f07c161e38b3ba9692a456f520c3ca61c6c81a1ff3664b4816
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it contains a mass external PDF link farm, with many links pointing to static.usrfiles.com. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains text related to a generator manual, likely a lure to disguise the malicious links.

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=pulsar+1200+watt+generator+manual
    • https://static.usr
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05e4b21b11414fb683019110d7e4708a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b5f0a7616f2c4122a05a0dc4150c0a8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f523c3_2306fca3b23947749aa658b9b48415f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a6eacc84c547487389b3ed79048008aa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9b344450f25b49bf95e1d2fa05b85f01.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e0eb0_98124cccbca147c58485dc4d7dc3a6a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cc77888b63c54c609c48469be275e08c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0758/2106/files/76569153464.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7816/4387/files/zuketawoluvetosol.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9bcc5f2c98884778aaea515996663cd5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/271e65_a144dbfc49cf46238d83453138b247cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_3d1b541e8df54c459004d612514e0908.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_off0000773c.bin
abd620885c834fded94f2a7ed2e6c003fd8a15d8e06865f91503f107e9282ecc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x773C 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000089a3.bin
b59aaf2e00b3572ba9abf9dfb8b1e220842f6ea5382cc54f5c85ee663d56de45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89A3 14776 bytes