Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3049f5875a4e64a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 07:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c2cd296c2738b28842603eb9c5076d2 SHA-1: a1530a8a7ae522fd7433192d9d89937251c09b6f SHA-256: 3049f5875a4e64a59fe9299595b9a1f1869f271f633fe5c19ded90a52b2afd74
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=calculus+and+analytic+geometry+solutions+pdf', is designed to lure users by appearing to offer academic solutions. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=calculus+and+analytic+geometry+solutions+pdf
    • http://files.insideoutclips.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775498/jepekimoreni.pdf
    • http://files.demottesycamore.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383743/2d0e174fcfa.pdf
    • http://files.abutoursegypt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483491/zekizisokoliwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4479/8613/files/31054442497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0292/1123/files/3422427832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3561/files/ripavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/grimaldi_discrete_and_combinatorial_mathematics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8806/files/30452759725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3557/4943/files/kejebikuwos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4594/4481/files/augmented_reality_in_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/37634644017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5746/3971/files/13478479094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1546/1275/files/xizoxodazukosupugab.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_off000046dc.bin
d775dd0bf4c83bce55bdb0746f0c53c0a0fb20d203d7703d273762d2816d0d86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46DC 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000596f.bin
ec24c6aeee2c006569d449f93dc9758f3163c4eab50a1644ae482c289ec57493
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x596F 9780 bytes