Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d45c72c70d518bdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd7c3661959d7ccde849c76fd470dd0d SHA-1: 202a51e5081bea60d995d93ca39a224cce73bee1 SHA-256: d45c72c70d518bdb1b0799d965f591ea4b8e6bdbcb2eeb55e3ef62d302abf294
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic identifying one as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The presence of a large link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO-based phishing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=holden+caulfield+character+traits
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cc37905c63864e108382a3c83f22ecf5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd7405_7352465f49bc4e0198339db96de69c5d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/be19e1_b1609265357a463c861c922788ef5fca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f55bec_efb6399f6d5d43e6aafdce0de8a46c5b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82eff5da619c43febc61b3dbc129ae41.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0334/6078/files/vatican_guided_tour_length.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_ffe918a387d84dbbad40ec1bf03d1ee2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0792b88f3e704728b07e4b0b60683034.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_ca7c3cf6cb6141c9a3c932f4486654e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_b04bc71613a64084a485839d390a2138.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64c57f553d4945a384cc44f40983c5b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_8e79fbc385414d2aa10024481fbf2eb0.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_off00005d8a.bin
cfe8a341391684d574b9e525725a5f103031b55ef444717a3e539dd680b216c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D8A 4952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e48.bin
62b5163450b5f7ef7582d5380bc4d82ac5658db5dc8b822afb806a12467a13e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E48 10056 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000906d.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x906D 4324 bytes