Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3f289db54d65090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 23:13:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3709b6e3abd78271fc405ba51bc527ef SHA-1: c9ef5e04d096c16fd31955073a98919a0e8b62c1 SHA-256: a3f289db54d650905fb66ba3a1fca63f7500c518c3d43cd3109ff080cb927096
152 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 identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'cerebral angiogram pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=cerebral+angiogram+pdf
    • http://files.transcend-ed.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606431/2291430.pdf
    • http://lipoj.sbcsocialsciences.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739415/6778664.pdf
    • http://files.orbmet.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969884/977fae60.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8306/files/tukevumirip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7759/9383/files/23785529924.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7418/1534/files/ante_nicene_fathers_volume_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5481/7690/files/wamowawuguxavuxik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9752/2329/files/jidamonefoju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7595/3049/files/93601568734.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/tudovufobivasasoli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0459/0242/files/26920558266.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7529/7689/files/sources_of_groundwater_pollution.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/75237459207.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8493/7384/files/21734107877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/12410546401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4818/0634/files/female_body_parts_name_with_picture.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_off00006bf2.bin
68693dd82d7ffe740e6bdb70ab5a016e7c5dddf89d4b663f4acc3d59bda742f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BF2 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d94.bin
8a4848ee3c8630db9830e865fc85b77aad30f644abd450a9a3962061457ff301
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D94 10224 bytes