Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5897a0c1d376ff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:56:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3ef5c7ab94a318143984dfff6173c1f SHA-1: 6e7d4917f2907058882b2554a2d5573878dea396 SHA-256: a5897a0c1d376ff859d72cb2614ac5523909c0fa6b985212938842a322202a18
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'protein structure powerpoint template' and includes the malicious URL. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=protein+structure+powerpoint+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63022f_2c0d456eb55d4fbbafd26399ba2e6ae0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12f4eb_e3344b97b65c4fbbb85dac2d6b385697.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73cb9e_64a10f9e074f4e8cb847effb571d9f9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca9b0a_3dfccdccb1bd47bf89f38909137e1084.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d7ba0f_865dce3fc90c4e33b1f915d72ae5d97c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/37428b_f2be741743fb4927af5153443bec78ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd4472_814dc7a9418e401c8df9634e5849646c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c348125c14e743af95484c08f42a5667.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/72216b_ee8bd0d61e254d64adb85ba0342a0fea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4505f707abef4a2eba8713b00a831b7b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/850f07_3ac3affd519c4c5fb178589a203fe662.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5ba0899f1c3b4c5b88aad73add6155e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dc0290c9949c423c865e12435864e4ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8f27721dc434d41b0938e64aaaebd65.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f2b0b735e20c4f308f2f9922363ccce6.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_off000063a9.bin
16d448f28cd63dcb637742c91cf5327510633d6e6b5c2b0b5e563dd57d0ecffa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A9 5172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000753f.bin
8d34778f412fd6e3218e05ec37e9626cc265724d7cb0d3baec18dfd22850dee2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x753F 10056 bytes