Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94e3cb9ae07a01fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:11:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f1e4f116fa71db5ec23d27968e7997e4 SHA-1: 3c4075dddc85e1007bcd36fd7a0df5544ca4c5b0 SHA-256: 94e3cb9ae07a01fd42c9ea571fc174b5a7ea9ef5479a0254dbb637f35001c786
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'postgraduate study plan sample pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links. The presence of a link farm indicates an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely.

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.ru/pify?keyword=postgraduate+study+plan+sample+pdf
    • http://files.artfulteaching.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740521/b27a11a5911081.pdf
    • http://files.rebelliousrheaboutique.shop/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406413/2090860.pdf
    • http://files.tigertrailstadoba.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/ziwafilibedok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2725/9811/files/93133193712.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0804/8808/files/class_10_physics_light_reflection_and_refraction_numericals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4085/0598/files/16567672369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6028/0982/files/dukekikavarabez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1455/3763/files/rajamevopunozeposexazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1669/8526/files/wozajaso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38746106010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0235/6127/files/46907900995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7111/1330/files/85022966355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84302935330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4127/5547/files/51421307379.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8359/files/lobokowelidipab.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_off00005ebf.bin
3d0bf12b7fbb8a512895b52956812b60026ad5db229f3a70d7e31552802d7a87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EBF 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000714a.bin
b79fe15a0a8623e3897058c6fda47678b022771c3a07e8ed540605d83d829e1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x714A 9604 bytes