Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f1cad420b8722e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 02:09:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f2dec5bc4076147ce42bb22194efa51 SHA-1: 9ab075bb673a7fa34d38d09521e99ede0bbd3868 SHA-256: 4f1cad420b8722e0cd9ced980b628ed7ae854d943c8771ca9cb39c179629cc00
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body text, though garbled, contains 'Sap banking suite' and a URL, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes numerous external links, consistent with SEO poisoning or link farm tactics to obscure the final malicious 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.com/wix?keyword=sap+banking+suite
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_321509018dc64367ae7f55a15431404a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_abc924ab436a478fa42cac534a7d5361.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/585b1d_03d7f1abd52d4e7497acc5309cdfa9dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/51c472_25ae02d5f139494a939b0952ca6d380a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c4ccc4_8b22fef351c74a08bea314e93e1c7f50.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ea91e_2920ce65090d435b91395ede0d7d74fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7542c7f67ad24ae6b4c755e5b9fd0709.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_9ca1f5ae2734499fabac37e86f4e6b3e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3066/4600/files/best_gaming_background_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8311/1323/files/gotex.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c16.bin
b858c440c6923a1c2a720747bf640e85de406d47631bf67c6305591b8ea062b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C16 4940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cea.bin
bd1fc227aaeb2c5cec91090bb8a1cc61bbcf33aecdcffccb64e0a6dd1294705f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CEA 9952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008ef0.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EF0 4324 bytes