Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59d0721dc81f7324…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-09-08 20:21:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0bf774124c83a10c8e4282b763f1ac85 SHA-1: 7420fa596e4e46d4cfd103381053ba92ae72b1dd SHA-256: 59d0721dc81f732405b75b9e67e33047e1590c13674b2e785239912da2fc34ba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Amadeus pdf file' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous other PDF links further indicates a link farm or redirection strategy. 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=amadeus+pdf+file
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55cc32_28b1c8375f1a4a32beae904d63364fc8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9f2514_710bbfbe89664baeb7dc5e898055d362.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/740d8c_37986e8359ba4cbc879dd8b34f749cc6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5c7528_36411cdc366f46a7a4c0be4231387781.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b41a9a_b1f1e0bb4b604834ba7125c0a7eeca49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/86319b_513ea60939d243a5b29d3123164fb8de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b7d8a_d3ccc4cb4fcd4eb282d8a2d79be3ce4d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/185c00_aaf49db337ae497b825358b5b1aa2ec9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_af10a04a980c4568ba22dc6c15a8475b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4760/8730/files/gta_san_andreas_ahin_modu_indir_gezginler.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65545430121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9262/9917/files/taporavakojipafomurekafof.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_off00005d1b.bin
c6acebe3750ab55c09714fa1b34f6c70ddae3ce202e1a088ffcbc34adab53285
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D1B 6588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d95.bin
ee8b3c7f635ca9c3b6558578f95924291957e3f3a78c5034f0f1bc779e4a746d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D95 5080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007ece.bin
807842617d73c1b3c38f51e44468611a7e04ba44342ed975a5cbf3c4d1d022ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ECE 11560 bytes