Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e997fa0bca045bed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 12:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e19372d44a1d27e187905841576cf52 SHA-1: 6b1cff54af2a30bf515b8d17e5ce31864856a235 SHA-256: e997fa0bca045bed3efad5a8636899273d8ecb2161d0958afda6d5545189f5e7
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large link farm, combined with the ML classifier flagging the PDF as malicious, strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful websites. The document body contains the malicious URL and numerous other links, indicating a spam or phishing lure.

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.ru/wix?keyword=madhab+raj+ghimire+nepal
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_107871a511b54473afb38051ef128d10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99ea93d438a34e9a980688eeb3c53495.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc14e4_aac0f3d077c64c6cad52d941fc32ad7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94a74801f76b4755a92aa15516616763.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_11d6c5dc5fcd45b691e18ddb7d4e19c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_4d92df791bd84e12be529a99640e47fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eef6f5f77388495b85a12336361531d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c41e7_ebfd770a19a945cd9367782c761a421f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15861b91b164477fb0af47f3fd67a988.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4baa7026e90046c99245cfd96e892ee4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_12918248429a48a5a194bf0ac226cdbc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83c94c35d1d04a19bc32a8329cb88f04.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_facd8f0f98a144e2b13d908f4d4011ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_f4a1f9afaac7465d985643be18b6ff65.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4c3db10aacf14b5e8cb2cfbbe9a95f8e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fd461d227334486cb00d8ddb7b81d9d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eb7b9ff53afe4665843893c2008d0bbc.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007245.bin
469e656e53cf933de3edfc0095cdc42b7040560adb16924578b648c5c8965f60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7245 5016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008316.bin
6674f5b35e4b026e0e2f65a09e71a6416a96c4c5909ffabd02222d3a908fb5da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8316 10092 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a5a8.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5A8 4324 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b3a9.bin
b1d3bdbc8711afdaaee6d2a0779193c29b03043c46bd4bd8d95a22b406fe375c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A9 6780 bytes