Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b5a96f2ae44d036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-09-14 11:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39369e8396ddfe1e408db19331c04369 SHA-1: 8d509120efdb1e0e68b5854b4687eb15e76a034f SHA-256: 7b5a96f2ae44d036ef02b2a278e43f98adb6860a120b76f5576ba956b1cd06a1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=the+deepest+well+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many of which are hosted on static.usrfiles.com. 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=the+deepest+well+pdf
    • http://files.seaweedmoon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874394/f5759615de4d.pdf
    • http://taxixodep.lauranevitt.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636727/1830175.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/72b0e7_280ed699e1ca440396e3b5d7d80cc933.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/963627_0caddce8a706408db3c1d4c785c44550.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a538c46f3e7540e2b482ad1377d0217a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_04d1f3a3380e4712b1ef075d87b1ab9a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_2d85dc0ef2464b38ac50ece1a3d5d0fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d21c0_1a591053e4994dcfa74d8e8039869c15.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/6829/3019/files/guia_consejo_tecnico_cuarta_sesion_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7405/2503/files/barrios_julia_florida_tab.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_off000045bc.bin
00d3e94fa82864de99658bf06494833b0984d5509852e8338da19ca4cfabd021
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45BC 4388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000054c8.bin
efaa76bdfca65320c7f90f4f3749245ddac4fedfbda0902329bb42c53ee60f61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54C8 9864 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007675.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7675 4324 bytes