Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f28886ae96cc3e08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 02:10:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b40621b4fe1928467c4ecb9d2043926 SHA-1: 3b6d5fc2e4ca1a3745b494352ecb02dd55724e23 SHA-256: f28886ae96cc3e08d06edc6ec2ccb2e0be47a1a53958dc118196cbf014c5ca80
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is designed to lure users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'strategy games android top' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of a large number of embedded links, many pointing to benign-looking PDFs, is characteristic of SEO poisoning or link farm techniques used to distribute malware.

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.club/wix?keyword=strategy+games+android+top
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/39d081_75e18b0a6b244afe9b697f2941e6b708.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_c90e1c48866c40c188200ed0153fd4e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/735424_89e6134957c94f688c4bf13b3bbbe02c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6844/1254/files/lucerne_planting_guide.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7642f6ffc28645288c5cd434533edc10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/516793_aeb381640dd241ab8156a7e6a8cabd4b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5914985513b54c4db41644b2db3b7418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5575/4914/files/acxion_fentermina_30mg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0684/4315/files/68018161177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4266/7676/files/intellij_format_code_whole_project.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1921/3727/files/56233793502.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_off00006326.bin
a07e166876e02dfb014ea00a52b4d11b5ffeb5aefc49de406414e1c548255d91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6326 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075a7.bin
633e164aafb081f93c7f783137cd310c8c725897201b7853689382018735cef1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A7 10212 bytes