Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3ec020dc98f1e83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:41:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e9944e8ea837f7110726ba8a5704323a SHA-1: 3a1c8524aa23e76dfc449b2f480b88eec35c18a4 SHA-256: c3ec020dc98f1e83d3c830a7986026332541ec825eeefebef9b760a08352ff99
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Microbial genetics by david freifelder pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download potentially harmful content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.me/wix?keyword=microbial+genetics+by+david+freifelder+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5892/9570/files/casio_ef_558_user_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/5831/6700/files/sociologically_how_would_a_cult_be_d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3196/2535/files/kaxitesozamivajudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/breviario_de_alarico.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ab202aaed20f4bf793919a3be029d67d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64e22d33b8e24ab081d2ae50c4621a43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0e49f6ad0a14d05a1beb18eea53b9f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ec0c41_aee8ae9c5a374f09a14fb4f54ecb3f49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_74f958602e7b405f9f6699054cc60f52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d72b41df5afd49369f67247cd0d2f3fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_ca76ca153cbd441eafee9b3619f90462.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f4afe71ad9764b7da7651b4ceac5e679.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_off00005596.bin
c34a225a30600f46aec9ac1fb27cfbc7743e96796536cab4e40149522613a375
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5596 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006814.bin
1adb4f7b2acf21a79b6e8de53f85fd48b1d9e3fb2b857a098f4fb56b4e35285a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6814 10096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008aa9.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AA9 4324 bytes