Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90e3021121eb3a5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-09-02 15:54:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d73da919b296aedf83a5cef248f4deec SHA-1: 9aa8905a5c91b579ce578a54dd72ccb365c2cc62 SHA-256: 90e3021121eb3a5f3f10305fc28e32fe7ec58e38f5ac2e33b4f7387d6ad26aba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'debt collection lawsuit response template', aligning with the malicious URL's keyword parameter. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier's high confidence further support the malicious nature of this document.

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.me/wix?keyword=debt+collection+lawsuit+response+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6116da_97e9f3e992df4a7bab6c2618b7982f43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_5f8629e4feb84fe4922ae2bfabdf27bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9ad48b43fafa4531af53524faa141fbf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89c6ad_0dc9e3a37e654a1db65a5dcd7d63a9ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3834b_9c10c304f1da45429b9d6094e9a1abc1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_73750ed6280945138afa5b4d7ac31947.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_f848ececf8404f3bb47ccb4ec45e0450.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_6af40d3bcdfc4e25a9a94d87783797bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc1a03_fc041dc5bd71479c9449b2719869e5af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b5f63_3ba7e7aeb941462b9f087b97d7ccc692.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6731/0231/files/28240032383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1342/0702/files/iglesia_de_dios_evangelio_completo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4642/1158/files/20140473483.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_off0000608c.bin
d8256346ab689d6378d6a409ddf0ae9461a8a5d8657cdb02f363e240bcde46ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x608C 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007229.bin
e373495340190d05a6eabc7df7b8e8be7dbd16c047baa8e7acdb4cbb732b3f13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7229 10240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009527.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9527 4324 bytes