Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ba21086ae4f42de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-09-03 17:15:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c2097d87794af58fbddc9bd73a6221bd SHA-1: b246e8b352586ee80ab3b3c22a9c0b4748d87a9a SHA-256: 2ba21086ae4f42de6c98b88d3657f65f1a2491fea3c3abd3a9a84f9dda163dab
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One prominent link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text "msc botany book pdf" and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=msc+botany+book+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/distributive_property_worksheet_no_variables.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4613/2119/files/topusar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5438/3782/files/kuruv.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0df0ede68d24257857ef5e4911b38e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/52b593_20f4b743f0184f86ab35b4097f8e53eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_32fe25f75ec94347bb927212096f365a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5415a_0093dbf86dfb453fafb597b98b744d44.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/868f76_f4d3f6aba1a042f19e0e5587903728b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a98ecc_9b4327a7081542d2981b0496661d9c7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7cc99874ed64601ab3f186fd024d79d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7ab08_5473d1bca81f41aabf7af6ddfe89aaf3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a3240_15785546f1544eaf94a2cb6efe04e4e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/82e28d_80ab76be4a3c4e5496cd3a5209a8b3f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5cbe5_9559983949b846c4b38dc149686db891.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599026_93e1de43c2b2466c8a402ff8cb01924f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45fd81_853b5e5774d64b1b8cabe85abc5ab186.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_off0000490e.bin
1f92412e85149a4220cc3d723e76df789e43ee0c14fe0d20184fad42bbc5b8f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x490E 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b5e.bin
f0f94a2549273b253a30c46079df0e5f8a86015afd8baf6dee3bcf23df072169
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B5E 9752 bytes