Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df5edcb0243a1803…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec0f3435fa5972eeb06c188c91906655 SHA-1: 3073672b055bfbd4c7fe1a0244945433412fa2ac SHA-256: df5edcb0243a180364a37d62ddde8f7dce9da905ca2ab9873f77c1305adf7d45
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics and IOCs. The presence of multiple external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute 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.com/wix?keyword=atlas+de+hematologia+clinica+rodak+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4435acaf8f07454098913d9b1539bec5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c9204ac282bf45bc993e2c3fc17378d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1d64af_aca0bb51108b435d97ea9040ccfd9edf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7a620_657b04c072d14641bf65304ec245fd3d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6244/3683/files/82056490668.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_997ae683a9c349bf93a1d04be82e9c43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/64d889_2b8ead370b8747b8b859da030cfa30d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8cbfce_c4b9a23e81eb4e84bb55787e12fb319d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c63dba_7ce455c4be3d4c1ebcea0c0960143325.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_62fec4d3da0e4bbab1cda8b2a138aed9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bb894_cdce1af91e174400807639a2768b33df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a4ef5ad615cc40d399cde0dc95359476.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_5044a3a83aba4d2dba1db7b0b2b2fe62.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_off00004a29.bin
c4dcdccb78ca485f93ff5a3474f7007eaf700a47eece936d35f443f3dc489427
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A29 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d1c.bin
aa61bda539f3807e69489f9aad59ca8e72b802c6426302407ce92cd0a16ae11b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D1C 9660 bytes