Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 047784971176514c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:15:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc23903030bb27a1f42d2d17b4664ee5 SHA-1: b348ff62922073fa9addb9fde148895b89efb7f7 SHA-256: 047784971176514c5198e4ef6d5fa3232501202e9c14cb5d3264e2e7678ee951
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains URLs that likely serve as lures to phishing or malware download sites. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a compromised or 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=histopathology+report+example
    • https://www.cancer.go
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1714/2433/files/zibub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/0775/2608/files/iaap_certified_administrative_profes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9646/5823/files/bivileju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5747/8809/files/23227248149.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a59130_f474faa71f59431393df5eea7f3f7ad6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_fbef701c63364750bee97d4b1996beab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2502/1603/files/network_diagram_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1275/7400/files/podupu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6393/5129/files/mikedizorele.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/09273f_7084d71aa59f48159d002e765d2aaf82.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c274e91da040459b9796b3f7d95bebb5.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000057e3.bin
93c17843e8486b93802504c0ddbf7be1cf69b795999fdd5788184d822cb6fa07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57E3 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a02.bin
223ccec3446efb9ff792933aead9b69a900b239b9ee57ecb2f7b79c4b9e49e1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A02 10192 bytes