Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc3bd5a4d7e868e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:41:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1182597d7780d808593c339ffe9ff77f SHA-1: e74cd1965f718e72fb1f741232ea737b6a9210a2 SHA-256: cc3bd5a4d7e868e0d41bff6f6c93f127f2ac26fe5f5381b271dfa991f069ccfb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector URL, indicating a malicious intent to direct users to harmful content. The ML classifier strongly supports this assessment. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary malicious URL and references to other PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links, possibly for SEO poisoning or phishing.

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/wix?keyword=ejercicios+de+traslacion+de+figuras+en+el+plano+cartesiano+para+secundaria
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_3f39024ac53044ceae93debc603d1281.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5af86b_ea0dae58124b4ac1919d7c0c0bb401df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef6a5554ca4744a995576b1ca1b073ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_fd4f3bb65a774820aa83f51765b4bd57.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_04f08eb78857408e8ee6a83001af41e9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8763/2286/files/zilatidaborekajozefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/4950898504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3638/5175/files/adipocyte_differentiation_from_the_inside_out.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/7633/8073/files/pobefigabupupupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3222/2615/files/sofunibusez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3485/9941/files/dofabunimowofojozagogufeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jotinu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1049/7434/files/38365355201.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_off0000429a.bin
99a7e83bcb7c3cf70f8040fe92567e6e84206c5a4ddcf67f060849da783d8cf5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x429A 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005478.bin
89912830e7462d15a508d0d0d807835b2c50246d3def41b2862d3b52772f86a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5478 9876 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000749a.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x749A 4324 bytes