Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5a2279396d16c7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 03:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f0b61801fb7fb4b14115198703f3d20 SHA-1: 4066a877d4df2da3c60d88f5799e1772cf905047 SHA-256: a5a2279396d16c7afd0d1197ea135a85a995ae1581771e381ce75a877bab738e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier firing further support malicious intent. The primary attack vector appears to be tricking the user into clicking the malicious 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.ru/wix?keyword=best+circle+of+fifths+app+android
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b49c6_776e6a36893441768b60a2148193bd6f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8127dd_452daf18e9a541a18f3772ead1508248.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/921909_83acccc449d049118402211215bc7127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2353/8088/files/92544718064.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2921/7958/files/aye_nsare_3_yoruba_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6586/files/borim.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d7ba0f_0164c9f923c84172923d2748a4dc7ffc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_163125df780b42c1b1b034dc81eac2f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a2e4_e0583a68dd7f4ddf98c4bb6ccd509e7e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d935e_7217ab3bf88a4900a211271155d0ecdf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e53d4_e905d0cd0ca74d2784285635310a2f73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e7ff5c28a83c46d7be195f2ff233c73b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5706dc71ac81497597232a735f013d13.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_off00006788.bin
60a0d86444af4c95f0cdd194eb44d1a31b1cac746b9938d2f6bd34e83be0428c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6788 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007985.bin
d1ca0c8109a90158a2a4773151f7d1d3b0602dc7a95fd6db3fa51e61e1bff51c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7985 10092 bytes