Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb91eb88c805dc18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-09-02 12:40:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b79929907b4be650ccf6df994b0823c SHA-1: 993e8e85d9f2f9aef885732329951c1bef53ba5b SHA-256: eb91eb88c805dc1864e7efb6789e409ab3934beb18d36ec5241f8d502b3433df
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a specific redirector URL that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to a movie title. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to drive traffic to external, potentially harmful, sites.

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.link/wix?keyword=attila+full+movie
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ab72e_094e6e250ec44a978aead3b01b951c24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b9361337e3c4159b927b7c2c566d5a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6ed78aad2bad426683c752065a27b131.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2ebd8_766d1d83f81e431eb12495d55d919057.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97aff7_43f9b002dfb64fd7b4bc1f23908a3695.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_25f9f3382689474698db1398e7d2837e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55e2c6_6cecdbee7d654e2381bda07e7a538693.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/516574_eaa43961f1fc428a83fdce58c0546893.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/362633_812b1c1337dc4a8db25ee82bdcb8785b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3011a4f3a1d545b59a2c0ab3f6444fef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a467d2_09cb1deb39f64667952eb955882fd9b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/41f880_0ae22b8f1bed42b0b4662bb5d334c4a5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b42fd6_7d81434b231f43e4ba15b688f60611ad.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_off00005e65.bin
6fcbf6719d6328c29942a5f302ff0d9fed92c42d9ae278161d3fa7f819427385
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E65 4688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e54.bin
6da70d4a46b4c34071f3505421da5d1c6bf0cb7592da3952498ec062fa4d89fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E54 10084 bytes