Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31eb5d2438c4bcf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 04:21:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 05a233f547abd8e0e007eecdf5c588a6 SHA-1: 2750b673261bda31737a987282886dfd4e19aa37 SHA-256: 31eb5d2438c4bcf2775c5bb7afbc876ee97265f9f6ced1b282b69c8989f51ee2
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm designed for SEO manipulation, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the document's purpose is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.ru/pify?keyword=building+information+modeling+course+in+pune
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99a8f2_c2ee0bfc2f6945bf8988ff6dd286adf2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/850f07_75f53c9584614596a17e189bbb24a5b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_afc20dd509184fabbb17e4150ac21ffc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/51c472_27fad2adb8a34eea8b13b76fe9fce277.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ceeb9_8d7c0dbca0254889b8c768e1326b92e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599f1c_019a23c3fedf45978f18ed11c403a44c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5412a_819dd4ba867046b6bed102b83ee4cba3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e32576_0a472454f6c64306bca7f5954518249f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e85c6e49114408ead775c710541af4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2144100e9be34a09ba9a82ea531e3fca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65175_09697fb35bfd4d20bed1a5301f5aad92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_436d222b5ad2406e8b732ce8670b9841.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e7e4a0_4c3cc8763b1f460697fdeb5c1f938416.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ed64d2_09cec6abd10347938a2f01ebc56c87e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_854d07ea873f45c381e7c44f16111951.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_off00008c7b.bin
164c8526d3907b0592f62e5a883a006cf113508a05f62dc65f340360fc46bef3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C7B 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009f38.bin
2de6c4791889abfb3923a66f044036057d21856e4a9bc13cd52f5af4d09657d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F38 10648 bytes