Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a52ff257e8e0b51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 13:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 541dabc1d7c22258d9b41fc900045378 SHA-1: cb9ec13a8e8a5769f012d7556f2019a4d01a343d SHA-256: 0a52ff257e8e0b51aeabaa4df41737ec974229619e2650577bcb22b014cb7b51
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a 'project report' lure, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic strongly supports the malicious classification.

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.com/pify?keyword=project+report+on+biomedical+waste+management+in+hospital+pdf
    • http://files.avlcbdrx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775998/b07d30e4d7266e.pdf
    • http://files.braemarmensclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872286/pekeputafobo_gifuna_tulime_fukudafapul.pdf
    • http://files.healplaylove.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452846/tufuxu.pdf
    • http://files.taxjustice.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384468/jesakibanid.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/java_swap_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1098/0000/files/makow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tiwimuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4506/0762/files/84383944451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rodol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7240/6179/files/19173979993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6560/6301/files/todokotetokanabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5946/8701/files/tamil_to_english_learning_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/guidelines_for_management_of_acute_appendicitis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8083/1396/files/moxunoxef.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_off00007c05.bin
73ccd6f4fabeae32e0c849bc794c414a0ca5f42923cf1f8132bdda7db363fd47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C05 5880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008fe8.bin
2e154e6e5a731b411ef9f383e6544b63ccf23ef550030a2c15cb43404158b661
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FE8 10252 bytes