Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f118555540c7a329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:02:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5275a4453dab692f82273dd1f99025e SHA-1: b7232bddca496792ae5ffc5df22fea9fe3173235 SHA-256: f118555540c7a3293b6adf1d7ada4015484f6b0af01b021ddbdf7791a3d8e175
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL found in the heuristics, suggesting it is the primary malicious component. The presence of numerous other PDF links, while some are benign, points to a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the malicious 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=physical+geology+laboratory+manual+a
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40b9e6_17fc7e5c546841aaadbdafd41b570587.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_bb9be352cbfe42068cd4444311632f1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/217d68_0274674ceba04459969ac99d4354d447.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_53a38a0da88c4765977f66f4ad668683.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ecadc_c8d6d290ab274555ab34c724fc9cfd27.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5847/0807/files/free_calendar_planner_template_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2115/3957/files/django_template_context_processor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/7266/8057/files/61147073500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9159/0308/files/modul_belajar_excel.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de3d83_d94fef9e0562485ca286563cf4f15218.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b15a3ae8ae444835aaddf3d67db363c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b88e3d_4975f9560d9e44458eab301dd1109338.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79cb75_a272ef1a6fb44b938a5fd05c58728d42.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_off00006280.bin
1dfff98842bac4d11b3d8582531ce2f796e6cb8deec1db08726c5352a8fc2134
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6280 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074eb.bin
cafac0fa20f9386482c585d64dbc6b9ce39730de005ec9a924f4035c7b7423cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74EB 14480 bytes