Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d07319362ebc7ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b03e20dac6d7ad5ab65bd48906179f4d SHA-1: 806f00458d302ee48faf6b7a47674ae5ad5bfe0b SHA-256: 8d07319362ebc7eab1d58ac4a615edfa99ed644826f1c816c2a4fe83ef1ee99a
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely serves as a gateway to a phishing page or malware download. The document body contains garbled text and a repeated URL, suggesting it's not intended for human readability but rather for SEO manipulation and link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.ru/wix?keyword=path+of+totality+south+carolina+2017
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05380624090343b5bca55777ce2fa750.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b62ce61e7b49492f9187ab3132f7c316.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_07a861ba1b0a45c3b52c21fcbcec48f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2054b899cf84fc094ad39843c379632.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a644aabf54cd4891aee24555feb8c015.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a382ee_786d6dc45bcb455caaec166942658bed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ade4e6_4da345b14c4b4c768e3162ba79a19d0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_832aecef188b4b538cd4dcace800634b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc8a8e_6560ea2242c847299218e3eede0dfdf7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d2cebcae217b434ea6de0aeef9b1e0b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2f3a53aed817421298ef206ac3598351.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_571e4396566d4f60a43440070d58006d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_230c1e8b6a9d45e997fbecb745af5ea6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c468c2040188450289c3949a2aa6740d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5bd8a78e42484b0187cfcc6f3640ee6e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b85eb0_8e3237aad0ba4c0e9d979b09263a9bf5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_371c63bf76a6418c97ece4951a0877cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b9801a_527dd94660974ea7a3520abd5c621279.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_90b894dfaf584e44b82e71d2bf24d862.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bb894_1119b250fb7b4a22a41abe3fa13f24bf.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_off00006b1f.bin
63c018a25770e8aa96f602c215969b4e8aff72f9e4243e82a09f4c1d0b8df43f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B1F 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007dcb.bin
9f6c40173bada981cbdc4cdd6c9c4dc00b1212de16ffdc414ef414c374a00b01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DCB 10272 bytes