Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35e2a93dbe3748ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 13:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 104c958971b0914aa2a0e379a93ac0c6 SHA-1: 800541f73738d9715673057e3f18bdc56d53bef5 SHA-256: 35e2a93dbe3748ab64ebd0112c65181b05f098f4c08b2c3fb32bbb1073f83098
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=biology+textbook+class+12+maharashtra+board+pdf+download`. This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick users into downloading potentially harmful content. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, many of which are hosted on Shopify. 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=biology+textbook+class+12+maharashtra+board+pdf+download
    • http://lonup.every-bodies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738732/5b78c6e071.pdf
    • http://files.trinityalpscmf.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071095/829640.pdf
    • http://files.cchspostgrad.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384492/rovituv_sumutunaroxuw.pdf
    • http://files.marshallilchamber.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871501/pomakevozise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8258/6014/files/aquaculture_telugu_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7816/4384/files/nelogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0111/0940/files/1652821464.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1138/1147/files/trainstation_game_pixel_federation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4055/5676/files/72583123485.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7020/8662/files/vozajilorisifefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6045/3785/files/najurijetaxumaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5863/3631/files/hackerrank_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2865/8848/files/currency_forward_contract.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6244/2646/files/94074088100.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9275/3049/files/47419871473.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_off000073cf.bin
830e837012b9a9a0d0aff5d4f5b572019d831d0ca57fd383b2668364cf0cc5e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73CF 6268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008921.bin
5d53d16b1b93f5e805e45494d7cc766b1b1369a222145611ba72251ab9939b6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8921 9964 bytes