Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83a037f35cdc7dff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 20:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3563e01241ff6bf9c8561808c21904ef SHA-1: 9328f07a50865c57a1d049f7f661b123b67f9564 SHA-256: 83a037f35cdc7dff2d06132677cd5f98c1fce7d59b89310bc07a4888a829bb38
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the redirector heuristic. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=non+renewal+letter+of+employment+con
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_37cc14b2892646c79dc8fb92c192adb8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/21e6f2_5cb828ba1819421e9012403907c0d12d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8e52b85748f1468db76280c43edec44d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b7d8a_3e36d5a3cfc9431d8fb4485c57897fed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3b11887d8f7c40c7922343d1fcf48a53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_d765c0e04ff14558a496d186baa1a5f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a382ee_424b40463918413d9a2a70c249f25e08.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/xepopikafesowi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0456/4742/9799/files/ieee_paper_template_latex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3748/2405/files/zotiludepizebur.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_48e0740b91574e8087fc1d573c0f6999.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_c03835010c8b407f9e25da3dd348da3e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa9ca426d15349f3a5bc093628f85eeb.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_off0000a4e1.bin
b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4E1 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aedc.bin
1dc34b43a023bf9e57e701ef949fadb0b95b8ec54d9cd7ce3e094162383bea37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEDC 5144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c068.bin
46e2453dcb96741343fd563de4ccc6dfddf13491241c99918ceee676a8d85992
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC068 10120 bytes