Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 530b31853b86646d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 03:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1aa6ea2975f0a260dae363d7d87c7747 SHA-1: 06fe4f452e844ad46efeff50f4b280c68cc834f7 SHA-256: 530b31853b86646d75e7311c7b9726abd9a25048607bc73495c54b02849465b0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be a phishing lure disguised as a search result for medical information.

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.ru/wix?keyword=nccn+guidelines+2017+pdf+thyroid+cancer
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a8ca0f_89a41154fea147e9a5958e3c5c0bbd96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dd040_04d35b683b7e469d814fb6addf66cf70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d002d_11ef076f486640689ecc633cdbeb55d4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9723/4338/files/all_marvel_animated_movies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7238/files/63703844613.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_9a5fe4c3698943ab955489ee5d0551ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b48b60_f52072e204834e5bb8b4372c3f63e073.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74e9cf_97882463c925426996051427fb8b3daa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0047a4_20bef7eb001c4231a1ee0a5ce1b045ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15861b91b164477fb0af47f3fd67a988.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0adedf_be3b077a57924de68be9ff0856387d7e.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_off000074dd.bin
2673caddb6605c7ec706e7e6f438763972433da7e9e3c8261f601a7882bb03c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74DD 5776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008895.bin
ed94421e8fc55fcd4d0a1ecd6489a0e01312230030ce73aaae5015cf3da811e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8895 10440 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ac50.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC50 4324 bytes