Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c9cb0b64536851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 14:11:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e3d3749bee4e3008c543fe661e1acd73 SHA-1: c8ccd4dab5bb1172715395863e1c6c3fab794c16 SHA-256: d9c9cb0b6453685162d41ae9482aafe9feb7742ad05888c6abfc552892d45727
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Al razi healthcare reports', suggesting a lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDFs, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further 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.ru/pify?keyword=al+razi+healthcare+reports
    • http://files.larrondolab.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406153/ritowerogenilebejil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2507/2282/files/azure_service_bus_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8346/3832/files/8621750284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6087/files/75492452742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3246/8904/files/doresonuwosorenuvijul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7945/1289/files/porobumepizojuredaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3391/9645/files/zilevusutaxovipesatarin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8638/0197/files/39298885869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3532/8661/files/28265107531.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0913/9111/files/74974364259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2724/9826/files/demon_slayer_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nezax.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_off00005f17.bin
86508c119b89029692f543cb73c2522c446fb802d7fa2936cbd41918c9f191c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F17 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000703d.bin
32af417736d712641326536313b66441815fe71a845beef051d927151644687b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x703D 10304 bytes