Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c0ff5879e8d8df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2bbb02be3c85b2480ce5e0cc1b8c456d SHA-1: 1806050ca9ee3886cdd3b38ec8010b0511115f4b SHA-256: a2c0ff5879e8d8df2e7116c20eca36fda875f42e3fc45c43e92ff73701110215
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body disguised as medical guidelines. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or exploits.

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.cc/pify?keyword=aha+guidelines+for+hemorrhagic+stroke+2018
    • http://files.marielcosmeticsllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776720/1992040.pdf
    • http://files.daliahaas.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164386/4801549.pdf
    • http://files.lasttimetheywon.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856212/bed63408059b0b6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1769/1559/files/starch_based_bioplastic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4640/2213/files/82280164216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9919/3501/files/xigesavukorigobumotaxadek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7084/9181/files/13965332860.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9302/3133/files/85177088478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1384/files/vujibemobarufezilusosep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6432/8345/files/vernier_caliper_experiment_class_11.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3979/files/ringtones_for_android_instrumental.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7728/6565/files/template_cv_format_photoshop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7245/2776/files/yankees_2020_printable_schedule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2422/3141/files/strategic_thinking_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5226/9717/files/masolonanaxirigaf.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_off0000a21e.bin
c4f511d74ef501b87361d067b0aabf29242f84ad400ed8cf3e5d8e6156793069
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA21E 6008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b664.bin
6f77f792a451ecfe05d270223087edb3a7d56f6db07bfc749020a68b56957ecc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB664 10340 bytes