Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e05242d80306d406…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 12:03:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c4ee18103d781eb77c8211780ff8f3e3 SHA-1: f463939353f603717d94931f16efb3ed16e74519 SHA-256: e05242d80306d406b1c6f3d4ce71d0a8aad8d73c368e5df7d6e2370401c4ff12
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a link to a known malicious redirector. It also features a large number of external links, indicating a potential SEO manipulation or link farm strategy. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the malicious URL, suggesting it's designed to lure users into clicking through to a harmful destination.

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.cc/wix?keyword=flock+rise+time+tester
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b88e3d_f1e65a311ef940e9aa2cc48e9a5d162e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a2f640f340c6440aaa326855df987f29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/314c35_b9bb73652ccd446088624dcd35fb4692.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e87bf_5b2a8f5a6bd449b98cf4d20a42d6a6a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e1947b7e04447b99c3da2920385052d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e363015ff504085a3de576f5df0ec33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e42ee3_a30febd9f32e49e39d3e198ffbb51699.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4a87aba0e8764feda54d5ba9866ba59c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_6ea21ba756724eeaa0216b0598ec6dd7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/724fb5_156ed0a8115d4e45a23cbf815706af53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c618e9_12603eee7f464fa9990b52b9050cae80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef49ec6bf39c4bb486bb80f5e5d64998.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_off000046ef.bin
f5740864aa6fcd7a32869f4bbca19111dfbd4b9cf563b3feceea7b6aaf0345e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46EF 4756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000056fb.bin
9ce24b8ec5e1d266f5d2f03f3db3e8f8006dcd9fdc1355d354dc0db7072efcd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56FB 9996 bytes