Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a034793c8a09dbd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 01:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22b3d24b9055200dac4902b21a0f4a87 SHA-1: e570574fc5a64e1a49d9e8134ce7e0ff9a1982c0 SHA-256: a034793c8a09dbd0abd4557085fdd57c088936b7c45b5b15a45388d15964933b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'gpupdate report html', likely intended to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link within the 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.ru/wix?keyword=gpupdate+report+html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_69b932b11ed6492fad01f92eaefcb883.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4b38093ee154f2188d50831291210bc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e80d4d8a8b74db684bbff4843c84d89.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_10c165ccca2648dea3ce9a573b0be4fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_91436a01911e49eab3aeec83c749f18e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ab9fea6b2844dde98454f9542b0f382.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e00a3a6dbe5044e19e79717ded6e2396.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4afe074db90c414882ada8697861c3ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94654a8b021846d6a31af0396024b847.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5eec4bbe028b4a24be489570cf5eb964.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3800cadc2638485d949a63f9542d6a65.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2186b9bfbdcd440cb0bfd1af2283a279.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ab9fea6b2844dde984

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000625e.bin
3ab651bf118f2e7b171c82d6edde11366ab4e39bd02d0035a7b2f420acc0530c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x625E 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007367.bin
0d673a332ff72268e2390010f91cc74eac97d5521d7549876f1bdbbc971e3dca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7367 10068 bytes