Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bb8170613793fea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c192143c507af7f3ac2e8dae536a2eac SHA-1: a13692b3e36e8cfdd451abe8f5cd51dabd90a0a8 SHA-256: 3bb8170613793feafbe9655edad60c38ed995290318c31c6145da2f07b2e4bc7
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URL points to a redirector, and the document body contains numerous links to external PDF files, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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.com/wix?keyword=wh+question+worksheets+for+preschool
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5533/0981/files/biology_notes_class_10_cbse_life_processes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8671/6830/files/65299712915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0693/3661/files/android_tv_box_x96_mini_firmware.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6284ee5ef7f74cc293fa6d99cbb42d45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_a1aa953081914818b16b0c6fe4adb722.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b91566_824de7ba359944c2b7bddaf307779b25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a91264_521bfffb82854c2c8f4b571c59622320.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8cbfce_94259d072a1a4e1982cab98fe8c0e2c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf14a4_89c1fd1971484ea9b850cbdd1fc81dfc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_477aeae050044451953b60dacb484e92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_90f3194e6bc64949924889cee6bf18be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ecbae893454846a49b35a5d79251e6c3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8229/3141/files/rijetudarudon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4229/8264/files/dead_by_daylight_doctor_build.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8292/2646/files/vexezolebapimepigikaregad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5852/8405/files/sapalilelun.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_off00004a6c.bin
07ecbd60115b7dc40c095a9dd57bc07b6047a70bf23aee23b91ee7e8c857ed58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A6C 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c31.bin
e6b5260964f89f8512be5c36de094c56f16690908f7acd7aa29a9a46e1800409
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C31 10924 bytes