Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cb2cbf66c033528…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-09-07 05:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 018e738ce4df7b6de7907e37a5951f5d SHA-1: 1172670445b48527b4119c9e792457b0d2128512 SHA-256: 3cb2cbf66c033528b7908f690275bbbd0f6739a505c6b5451e0b083ea86faca7
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=factors+affecting+enzyme+action+worksheet'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Factors affecting enzyme action worksheet', likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier 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.com/wix?keyword=factors+affecting+enzyme+action+worksheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23063093424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5107/4204/files/sijudirixekixomufesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6538/4866/files/runexebefabek.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_bb1d7244657e4352aff641054bbac4f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cbdbb6_d5469cce888b4468aa0a5bd279b10c16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cd79e3_6841508110634faf8bb9dcf01f6477d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_91bae6ed42b94cf2b7b448fa53ef21dd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0654/7352/files/mozefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3297/5272/files/brunner_and_suddarth_13th_edition_ebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4234/0007/files/sims_3_torrenty.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6900/files/tusiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6536/0034/files/57136268153.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fb7.bin
5014b1ad12749a9dc4b1e60d5cab4ce903eaed7c69c5103340155e3fd28fee80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB7 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071ba.bin
3080117515302a5bb5591eb8a1127e021b89f7561a32ffb65d41729bc790cd0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71BA 10016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093e1.bin
5bb2a7a6380d1dfafb539ecff73d32ebbe261088a673e400f34aca4fbad20734
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93E1 16152 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a8e6.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8E6 4324 bytes