Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 967422c2b3fd79fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-09-05 21:42:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e42318a6eae9960df8c3a4975924ab5f SHA-1: 5351873fdbd22068bd2f5404bbd81a6d37c5ac49 SHA-256: 967422c2b3fd79fd906345c71815bb6c93d3c5b8216050e20f1627bdd8c25042
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'Helicobacter pylori treatment' and includes the malicious redirector URL. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further suggests a pattern of generating numerous links, likely for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content.

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.club/pify?keyword=helicobacter+pylori+tratamiento+2018+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8217/7946/files/vuwipabil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/2547/0364/files/durga_saptashati_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7513/3859/files/87994447930.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2990/6079/files/zipukaleguterelunebabe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b874d_3e88917b2b7344fb8ddd6fd9c2246dc5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_925d7002486b446e854573d929a231ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ba634_3262a66e5a3d4e8ba0a0ac2035d57dd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4c4cf_c429513b847f4437b7ab9fa20ac0e22a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/345929_7806576f3dcb412083441a70d321b8dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_7c9fa63ad87b494bb4138d3233b70c1d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4922/1281/files/precalculus_7th_edition_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2018/7805/files/75646629604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4222/5831/files/aadhaar_scanner_app.pdf
    • https://medlineplus.gov/helicobacterpyloriinfections.html
    • 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_off0000913f.bin
4fd8b1ddb88a8c8b1030091d321e1bb1936382d67f097c4c8dcce49b61e8cfa3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x913F 5848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a51d.bin
a2e023531acaaf0336536a2a047fe989059dd3991cffcf8be4e9a4e24f5c1773
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA51D 10224 bytes