Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38297ff9fba2757c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 16:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c355a279592c09a4fd58aa24d6a4b773 SHA-1: 27de571f56e032df74b09ab2bf058d926a86cb41 SHA-256: 38297ff9fba2757c178f530bba468c4be6ae10614677ae9a32b8e227759884f7
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, likely as a SEO spam or link farm tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=class+12+cbse+chemistry+book+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains similar text and URLs, reinforcing the lure to click on the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=class+12+cbse+chemistry+book+pdf
    • http://files.thesurge.cc/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483053/dodivo.pdf
    • http://files.ourcluster.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814030/paseximizamima_libin_gexefitapuwoz.pdf
    • http://files.staceysandiegotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637374/jipemumegusadufigev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6965/1606/files/gogijisup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6897/1418/files/49093705144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5580/0739/files/seropikuselapotevisewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5314/files/peavey_vypyr_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1946/4867/files/bsc_maths_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8991/1196/files/vomemikevolokuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1455/3763/files/ruwivedomatilafe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuxovozukirofavekejob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6014/9910/files/fubagexefofabekewe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/gatalobobod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6244/2661/files/39379252549.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3646/7623/files/amiodarona_biosintetica_bula.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000081ed.bin
dece63927a44d146e376071ed38d10cc116de37be95a2fe7ec4a14db761e077a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81ED 5792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000957a.bin
a9ec8c41503cbc0fea5f964c745e7b41cc941ca4de7ae0fcf08ff9de324e61c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x957A 10084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b851.bin
aa0141ef1983ca6a1e75555c5f201f5e267198d67577c6d264f88900ae5ec0d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB851 3260 bytes