Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99929e66834466f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 09:37:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c880a91d155295ef3f21ed3f18f0572 SHA-1: 1bbe8283d4aa6fe4e3757b912f87561a14e897a8 SHA-256: 99929e66834466f60db1f1202b61430d6ccae6ecf685440473b6403340b572de
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM suggests a large number of embedded links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. The ML classifier strongly supports maliciousness. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content.

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.com/wix?keyword=el+silmarillion+resumen
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d49cddcac9fe473ba4c0d60ba5c2a61f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2dba0c823b7a41fc9f1d03463ff52488.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d422ec1068354474a274f0a8a3d3554d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e320280654c84fb89998e5a5cb402258.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_44ae3c7fc079487186aabe4770e622f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8f2fc233092a431facb0184f681c8f3f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cb47b5f1d4014dbdb96ac6e2fda0fb45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3823b0cfa5174fe4a4bd80fdbc961c84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fa1ed2993df2487d960fe704b1703569.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05a263a724ad4646896366ea5eb67207.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_be1bd70a8f0e42aeadec758b1412f293.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_032545bc579f4844a2adcab88841ae67.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_752b1aaa1f574dcb93a3fbfb7c4d109f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f813b776b3b2450196a554948a86c5eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_db9f3a9a24f44c1f9b25eea88cc6337d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f45e0c67bf6d4144944e76151606cdb0.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_off00011468.bin
cca89896ca95eaf7dda25a8f8ad6fc4cb43beb860764ff2ca36dfc208a77738c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11468 4588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000123ca.bin
fa9fb2adce0d678fcb23f095351a3c4c022ef2f9af8f1e0c2bdd4d286161b6d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CA 9920 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000145c7.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145C7 4324 bytes