Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 482c2eb318bb6eab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-09-10 16:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebb5853d43990c0dd609de94bf31d415 SHA-1: c7521bcfe650aa5f0446565c2d360e13c12ed5fa SHA-256: 482c2eb318bb6eab613f318e5272047fcacea8029e7261c5630a9d43f4a707c8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a prominent link to a malicious redirector disguised as a "credential evaluation service report". This heuristic, combined with the ML classifier's high confidence, strongly suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the payload delivery mechanism.

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=credential+evaluation+service+report
    • http://gisegidop.rotaryofthreecreeks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695384/a92148.pdf
    • http://files.mytraveltrek.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380546/debd792e898526.pdf
    • http://ferisot.brownehillradio.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857363/biviz.pdf
    • http://taxazo.eastbournecarnival.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814085/jakepiw_zosibaluvuzuk.pdf
    • http://xivovum.triplecrownlacrosse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453558/detax.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b65acf_c5fab388b4864ab9843881b504058dac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_d0a529e6d8ef45668b5107a40cb083fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/84a5c6_05bac631531946e185b689d10641e736.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8737/1171/files/36704816056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2980/6759/files/calendario_mensile_ottobre_2020.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_c0f2fcdb305b4bf58a669409321be155.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cec570_ccc127502a9d48aeab8cffc8989f55ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/86319b_143c24a0231340fd85b349d9c0470113.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_off000060e2.bin
ee04c491a4adebdaec938782232c794d48e75edef465ba3e580e8b6c7e451e14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E2 5032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007210.bin
fef559912fc23db586c825db7e921c1cc5f02196461de6fbed6c34d7985a186e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7210 10800 bytes