Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4cf35edd925044e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:03:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ae67b9bb176c0c54756093d4aff274fc SHA-1: 6aec5ae321df7ec4024ec0847fbaf6e1c2e8c5c6 SHA-256: b4cf35edd925044e2981f33b937ca66e936078074bbd9346d174ee5003f5fd5b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to educational materials, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic further supports the malicious nature of the PDF.

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.link/wix?keyword=bse+odisha+9th+class+book+pdf+download
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9014/0581/files/dudaget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8673/1681/files/40635127370.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8286/files/birediropar.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_19b531a975e84f698789ed296dc62f30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/38eac1_5c17bc6727ee4771b092961c14dd47ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1813b3_b4b133cd891346b7aeb1e361d5da0bc0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/430cb2_9881b113049147cf9f9903e3a00da5d9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8258/7037/files/joboderotuzase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/9443266190.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/jepasolanejuxeva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7803/3313/files/38199347059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8278/files/netherlands_visa_information_pakistan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5297/1685/files/riwifesujuwenalotani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/8495091581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2285/9944/files/zowidibefimopuvowobomobot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0002/1667/files/dozetanogavokafadejuku.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_off00006f90.bin
ab84000dbdea4c82b889be32885fe2fcf1bd7f2bdca5275b3e3cb81126f044bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F90 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082c6.bin
a81467d571c3790d17bebb251e2dc1e72354dd95d8f93f7d2c038dfe24696be7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82C6 1744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008b64.bin
8ddf4db6558dd65a85aa57124d6c8c567a3e0cc7b6854bde391cb3b7a34248d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B64 10756 bytes