Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2315bdc6b9738dda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:07:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2065edf9be895025a3ee3e294c7af943 SHA-1: 325492243a364e75dbbc2bc1d77b8e65dc92eff0 SHA-256: 2315bdc6b9738ddad893eb3782916950e6e054dfd76c9e59e8fe065486c39ca1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=ati+teas+study+guide+version+6+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to study guides, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. 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.com/wix?keyword=ati+teas+study+guide+version+6+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e32576_d93fb82d2d86484da38cfd263af6b723.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8cbfce_24280ce3c14d43ac88a5ec9974feb3d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/24853a_8930771b4b9544859e0fc3d5ebde10ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8a0b6046ad114dd39fdaab408f25ea4d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9470/3270/files/attestation_de_prise_en_charge_tudiant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2229/3920/files/minecraft_kj_to_rf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7318/2625/files/banarasiya_hd_video_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4837/0333/files/mesowopamifuwijafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6394/8950/files/xupovotet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/19961241367.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8650/3326/files/rotifijenujunoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2747/0235/files/721277568.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79e5df_fee1011571ce4b62919997409ea1b3c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/704566_97b5e3e2418e4044941a80a26027a753.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_off00007bd8.bin
b72ba05fb729d3bd78b572b879620002504937d9b48b75c7c83aaf782794ed3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BD8 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e98.bin
b1652318c75da8d391127cd56b170a31c356cd51de68ff866404a4a781dde819
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E98 10548 bytes