Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 562f041ba8597e47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 17:06:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 301e4201e59e48186c0d6d92d26886cd SHA-1: a9a78304f482323ac12a6b85c9186c4b7a6a2f68 SHA-256: 562f041ba8597e47f9c676d087473aeb65f8bf5029534e48d4dd75900251021b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL found in the heuristic. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect the user to a malicious site. The ML classifier also 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.cc/wix?keyword=hagure+yuusha+n%25C3%25A3o+estetica+12
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bda09e0073e64be0915736abccfd8be7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c6e0b31c7e204237a0f3c7d6860efbc7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d78803_e988b393dcdd4935aafbf1ce961d2944.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e8e1677c4d24c3b96da265f62ba50d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_bbc29ed4f76346719df49c582744e649.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e0de796fada64556b4cb00baf59f5ec7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bfa3c3610ba742a2be88244e439d246f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6034/7551/files/9694354610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4495/2471/files/62982282980.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0423/0805/files/jcr_journal_citation_reports_impact_factor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6214/8763/files/37438458702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1802/5122/files/fire_genasi_5e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3752/2085/files/kutcher_adolescent_depression_scale.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_off0000410f.bin
fea7ccb56feb5b4d304aa0705977a80ff7e9be7a1a5d2a4233867115ab6202d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x410F 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005387.bin
30b1959c97094a235626f366ce4860a41d3c3ade3e5a8af1716956d48aac44f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5387 13452 bytes