Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2def9bae9107f06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-07-13 16:41:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: cf14824ff7edd3c0ded37716dc5ee6d4 SHA-1: 20a3748df8d3458ae51baba6a7c80a9f646099da SHA-256: c2def9bae9107f06ec9f29ae33f4f877995472002578aeebe0ee576f00e5056e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external PDF documents, disguised as a "Genetics mcqs book pdf". The primary redirector URL, ttraff.com, is flagged as malicious. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the malicious redirector strongly indicate a phishing or content distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.com/wb?keyword=genetics%20mcqs%20book%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsfeild.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874413/zamudedatum_tesorujutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davidgarza.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776374/b939f2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oneidcolumbus.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856827/9d0e80c727b33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jbmarbleandgranite.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738822/gifagoziridufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://webasaru.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/48239947380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konuvemove.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/kuwixumoguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felorige.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/88225926605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zafuvadel.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34051599672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuzixapixod.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/58648369046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refivoneb.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/50479980815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juxisaw.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sotakuluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasofibile.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/lijevunidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3473/0911/files/surozoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32686583269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81579197248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3900/6632/files/ribolazoguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6805/4949/files/89426475249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/40369191557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kesutuzijakakewinepubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1634/8057/files/57800195701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A8A 5112 bytes
SHA-256: f54584d9a6cb77a1f159730258bb7dc7330123bbe82acca5e9105c53c62e4aba
font_01_sfnt_off00007bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BDA 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 1198acf0ac35c5d7a01b3274523b3475310957d08581dd182be5386467c50a36