Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e719ee627d9b98e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:50:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ddf31e117edc8bc966942494a1e2b750 SHA-1: 08510d5aa268102ba23bd6ea7babc03303da3516 SHA-256: 2e719ee627d9b98e08cf93bb58dfa1e64c7bd5432ce77a198a5db9c2d0d43205
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.com). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'trueman biology class 12 pdf', likely intended to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself was flagged for containing a link farm.

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/pify?keyword=trueman+biology+class+12+pdf
    • http://files.recrates.co/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682868/e0dcb9d.pdf
    • http://files.the-joy-of-syntax.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454501/dabegazixaduxa.pdf
    • http://files.blackhawkbrigade.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303312/f8920c2343ac.pdf
    • http://files.ashlandaccess.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407353/ff24c.pdf
    • http://files.ajcberkshires.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164063/6658057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8262/8766/files/buvas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6175/4518/files/79120277184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9773/3787/files/manual_milling_machine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8414/5049/files/88382950373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0702/5056/files/bozixenijibezaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7241/4106/files/local_tv_listings_rochester_ny.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3550/8381/files/fasoratutozakin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3227/3319/files/64649171963.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4578/8565/files/kegarukiximeridunamevore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/62173891924.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5274/5375/files/jexefuvikuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2473/5643/files/58031667080.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_off00006a1f.bin
39ad20a31c9d46f1637e903d45c9953fe8cde19278860ba26c1217f3d97d4a56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A1F 5852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007dfd.bin
731a19f4ce60b6e045b4fd450244a8d937cb2a57266ede3ab805351999833af6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DFD 10380 bytes