Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3dcea3a3411edc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 21:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 204da9b83401082c138c7570e51fc0b3 SHA-1: af711ca90f3df23aa4db394572c28ecf968ae6e9 SHA-256: c3dcea3a3411edc4d31774179a5233b6a75c6388cdded06880b72ae531486b06
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Alabama state university campus map pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of it being used for phishing or malware distribution.

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=alabama+state+university+campus+map+pdf
    • http://files.stthomastheapostleparishmontfortwi.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856232/tutexojut.pdf
    • http://files.cottonhouseinteriors.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775998/jusowigupis.pdf
    • http://files.aldins.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383453/3989688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2048/3751/files/xodonuvaxabakixax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6083/0116/files/zifegelukirakax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gamusuzojikifikukudubug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8970/5625/files/74639986180.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4790/2629/files/23987449617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2521/1296/files/puperefud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6280/files/robolatimiroko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32506959796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1253/0081/files/98111068611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9741/5077/files/nuzodatetotuxix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3940/7784/files/tegivapagatar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3915/2536/files/git_on_top.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_off00006010.bin
eb9210147cfa595a31d065c3e9a15243d6a810133521afe8066fa17eab425941
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6010 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000730b.bin
d1fc1cde7032fa189eb815dbe0e14d9b20ef065d2cfd2f33ebd3ec9a760116fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x730B 13348 bytes