Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98f69a3ed00cf36e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 03:40:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e0d55906e5f6296057b96c23c3d0e185 SHA-1: f849ebb4157a1b02ace0906931077b3971ed10d1 SHA-256: 98f69a3ed00cf36ef8519cceada8b380882a831351bf4c0bc988e4fdfb6fdf07
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary malicious redirector URL disguised as an admit card. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the malicious URL and keywords related to an admit card, reinforcing the lure. The numerous links to static.usrfiles.com suggest a large-scale SEO poisoning or link farm operation.

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.com/wix?keyword=dsssb+je+admit+card++2019
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3548c_ade0b2744a97417094d0825e83b3e53d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d089b_880672db9fd34670a73015fd69f16830.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_28a5de96c180445e8ad834b3303ae0ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7ef1a_571ffc37ccd043b2996a41fc2ce09076.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a1fb72_30f0b2c6a0ac41f8a9a222232398e0d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b914b5_006167b0822945ac84200d7876365ce8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4a9d6_c1a31d67e9ec4ee297fca32eda1a0169.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7041e4_524df4021fcd483e945c6c38758e5560.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1c37d_50d9bbf1e8e1420d81cca7e3887fdc79.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6087/2604/files/45796605479.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5361/2199/files/jll_report_dubai_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9277/8912/files/67057104854.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/111c46_53f59d6b3182453589ddbcb71cd47809.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a51c1_b6c65049614240a98f091a05a3aae3d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/837d34_5ccedf20420a4e7c84b18c4090e7a137.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_off00005e18.bin
3b2a76cfae73d2e8f28f93babfd6bbcc6155dbf86cd881b843a463c9caf444af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E18 5752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007191.bin
7b80d144b0afc000125b0d37fb2ea21b1a1c5f78bd93b6a8c143067964b3e7d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7191 13708 bytes