Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56ef5f935b40407f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 247baca1ce3e91cf792cca98f6f46273 SHA-1: 50b5a0e8ebdb07af61ecd063092ce888278601a6 SHA-256: 56ef5f935b40407f18164bf81ed6e58eb1540912a4cb32a0a62c6e10953bc79f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL related to 'alcoholic gastritis patient information' which then leads to a redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the target URL and other Shopify links.

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/pify?keyword=alcoholic+gastritis+patient+information
    • http://petad.pymblemedicaldentalcentre.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437252/0ed32e6a86dda7c.pdf
    • http://files.maakravmaga.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483719/bc9610836f45192.pdf
    • http://files.the-gym.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775493/5ff0292e3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5673/4109/files/vurokovevakasome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3749/1357/files/toraj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7636/2150/files/come_dine_with_me_episode_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6723/5742/files/metabolism_of_essential_amino_acids.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8688/9639/files/printable_alphabet_worksheets_for_toddlers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1488/0405/files/gobirotev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5296/5792/files/toyota_automatic_transmission.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3256/8220/files/acids_and_bases_worksheet_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0101/1614/files/23723253052.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_off0000603a.bin
85b4d95f630461cbe566c52c23c28327aa31141d9f85ec9861b600339985544d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x603A 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007276.bin
2862753dcf9ad5eafdf82b611846e18e730a6170921aa9acf1fec9a4639874ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7276 10192 bytes