Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a23ad063d1afc402…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 17:07:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f6eb4bb9915a465b08c07fd6ae8de917 SHA-1: 28fcff7f53251499af6fbbca0ef8a1f6b7542df7 SHA-256: a23ad063d1afc402f17638152a9d7f22d0a4a2348b7af383f89bf69927b948b0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link that, when clicked, redirects to a known malicious redirector. The document body text, while appearing to be about medical guidelines, is likely a lure to encourage users to click the embedded malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=guidelines+for+treatment+of+asthma+in+pediatrics
    • http://files.aiafc.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739883/6608199.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5175/2344/files/69534236765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3618/0634/files/english_arabic_calendar_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9197/5580/files/warren_bennis_leadership.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4894/4295/files/estudio_agrologico_vi_region.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8660/9573/files/68533876864.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5917/3784/files/preparation_of_anthranilic_acid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6821/5716/files/conversion_de_binario_a_hexadecimal_y_viceversa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4280/6679/files/renomuwulobinepodiju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8278/4676/files/53263177538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0813/1233/files/character_development.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6284/3797/files/ethical_principles_in_healthcare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9619/3686/files/davadeliwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4489/6925/files/tawav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7612/2779/files/bixoxavupon.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_off000084b8.bin
27971c46aeb84040f9477cbb07b23e02fc246d630f6b5fb6b02e636d1ed341d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84B8 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000096f7.bin
f00555efa463fe344e94d86b8f35e27c2e751b85a2749c0fcf0b967430f3cb8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96F7 10632 bytes