Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d1cd3676f04f2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-09-08 13:12:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d4cf17d771602f3fb17b5858ff6e16c9 SHA-1: 64bec0e7d203dfab6d0ba607fe19d35a13280f60 SHA-256: f3d1cd3676f04f2acbd91f251f3d21fd706e5fa6ca58831dc82bebec42eb6a26
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered this finding. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign content, suggests a potential SEO poisoning or link farm tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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.me/pify?keyword=khachaturian+sonatina+1959+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2a7ab4fa13ef4a3381c92a1aa9ddd512.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d2751c_7d4383b1a3074ec6af79f0dbabeac279.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/405339_396b964d33874aff9329b6bfb569486e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7908/9824/files/joviligimusolarizir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3276/3801/files/error_installing_rmagick.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_00d4943f644d4b8d9bebbe8685a08081.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa32a6_362d09584463418facec2e17efaa0553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3892/4960/files/breakthrough_eddie_james_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4216/7189/files/xerostomia_review.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8877/7126/files/calendario_semanal_2020_para_imprimir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5511/9513/files/weviwukigitupu.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_off0000419e.bin
517b91951fbbec430a46a31c524b9b23ff71dcf0fe70b5535cd6b57dba46a7d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x419E 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005462.bin
89c71305aa4816bde3e313f17a54a59c56a9ca9b8799ab104c145275f9bfe2fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5462 9468 bytes