Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93db46e7d412b0f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 13:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f70092439f72873351074652afefd59d SHA-1: 30b4dcfd6dc0501499b0072c9423a0cfa2b6a099 SHA-256: 93db46e7d412b0f50a5cce898ca405882390719ce2fbac5aa7a2fdd843fb958d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a security update for Symantec Endpoint Protection, directing users to a malicious redirector. The PDF also features a large number of external links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the observed malicious redirector link.

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=update+symantec+endpoint+protection
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_451c69a7ab8d4a5fa28f1bf65de6d96e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_17c8f6c4e40b4f0fa3f29c9311347c6c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2ebd8_d0ffe0dd220441b0bb89c37e29affd35.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a91264_ac887dec1a7b467db043f9d29cc67e79.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_cd9c6305b03c44c58d52823c2548d3e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4da64_d12a61695a8240fea8e9b213e435e2ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_f3712a6b002a43f8ac84c69e4112b260.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2100d23ced5a494985e5751a87342560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2930/6263/files/vomokikabidatakuped.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6225/3978/files/ontological_and_epistemological_foundations_of_qualitative_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1350/4150/files/bewag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6351/7092/files/bimobemaxubumebodolupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9609/5397/files/17089253622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4460/9943/files/95458368570.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_off00005b37.bin
8d71768ccf781716491961cc119ff584503e77e7cf7b84955ffbcca613eb1ee7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B37 5068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c5d.bin
9b12f5bbf8771f80e5f6f38c9b95780e5a0b0c3a2e49e816e1a9a042c1c0444e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C5D 9936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e58.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E58 4324 bytes