Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb001538b55ca211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07973055c9ae80199eb103f72778caa0 SHA-1: 297f31726d61ea5b8feeea711615a6233e81d751 SHA-256: bb001538b55ca211d1d9491432ef63ce57f13875cca00060a554c8dc7c92fb86
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, disguised as an academic paper answer key. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of an SEO link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.cc/pify?keyword=cds+1+2019+paper+answer+key
    • http://files.tylerdsmith.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606059/0e9e70b4330c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9675/0746/files/calculus_3_final_exam_with_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5684/0350/files/44940258069.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8705/3471/files/sidaxalorakisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8735/4270/files/55266388319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4950/8250/files/70806479273.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9980/6113/files/fire_emblem_sword_of_seal_rom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5702/9019/files/jagidota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8565/1358/files/penetrating_keratoplasty.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0323/1908/files/zafop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7764/0092/files/49889633249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/organic_chemistry_klein_1st_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0860/5859/files/xorozenoloremewexos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7799/0568/files/hiv_aids_full_information_in_marathi.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_off00006f69.bin
485d8b2bbf52ce1906cd227bdcd9135c9a942893ea5074ee7e1171faf2c80367
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F69 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008140.bin
a2fda60cba09da0e9fbf30e38ceaebd79e27ea4a0f79261f88ae1e01bb845e4e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8140 10480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4e8.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4E8 4324 bytes