Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa9d75ad36550481…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:13:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0681ebae16e1531f8bf6b974e9f81c81 SHA-1: 2b3640eebca51173f02b054d824b0de90c386948 SHA-256: fa9d75ad365504814189494e8d3e25728cebdc27944f2440ee548cadb936abd8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged for containing a large number of external links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or creating link farms. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=ark+raptor+z%25C3%25A4hmen', is known to redirect to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be largely obfuscated or contains minimal readable content, making it difficult to determine a specific 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.cc/wix?keyword=ark+raptor+z%25C3%25A4hmen
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_d444f5ae860f42769d36902164d7611d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_3c82ee83620d4fd09a73bc1a67e7634f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_6fa457ab725d44058016cfeaedb7476c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6295/files/contractions_worksheet_grade_3_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8306/2695/files/brick_bond_patterns.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1985/2187/files/bridal_march_wagner.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mevebetivegukubevam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2502/1603/files/sinusoidal_oscillators_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/11085861466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/meruwuvonixejixibegam.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/585b1d_9dd666c7839441fcad73cfddd53b744b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0cd019_a11195b3e3864df885f2f578c82cc8aa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_26bcd97105e64c7fa94418495f1e8af1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_da55c65c83d84e70ab2c1c8ce83f3e1b.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a35a.bin
2630ee391e112cca27e07b461fcea7ee31148ad317109ca77da18024df2afd1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA35A 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b452.bin
c5816c58de360ab2b43e4646599f2e490023fa3aac6fc9c5027a83e2dc4dbe76
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB452 13408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000de65.bin
43e84046d57c5d8edad47de9228ce36feb53c5e515436c294a71041590f3a3a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE65 16132 bytes