Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9b3f513fc77871d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b1a3de0fa5f8c9ae49b57a41cb09067e SHA-1: 2d735abec863acf78109633b68330f2fa9216491 SHA-256: d9b3f513fc77871d3076a923952d6fc4609059c1b489294b4c5eec7659bcef24
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, traff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'embryology mcq questions and answers', suggesting a lure to attract users seeking educational material. The presence of a large number of external links, including benign ones hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking and distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/pify?keyword=embryology+mcq+questions+and+answers
    • http://novuwuku.pondsidestudio.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/4247397.pdf
    • http://files.pleasantgreenmethodist.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695365/lemegasudupewe_bomepapasez_vewamaxibanobom_rimilisanul.pdf
    • http://files.dmkconstruction.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775009/tukipok.pdf
    • http://files.radomirtodorov.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606984/garokof.pdf
    • http://bazoxojiw.jessiebeefit.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815045/81438230a9f6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5267/9836/files/zitadisubemamisanoxapigis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mirizopenifipometetotagoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/35129142549.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4463/3756/files/21098063719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8134/3900/files/fedopixugomorusujeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4945/0661/files/vivumaxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6431/0425/files/7895424094.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9360/9896/files/sutura_catgut_cromico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6127/8870/files/lesubajesadoloziseti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4207/7852/files/quicktime_alternative_1._81.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3365/7507/files/94545779599.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_off00006425.bin
b3146d14e80841b078c9d3bb28a48ccf8d2ea45ef2ebcda6d2b7d6258762bd99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6425 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076f9.bin
7755df632d4041fa91cd452dbcc4289117eb9b47c4ef027c1dc8b1845d7fc8fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76F9 10180 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000099b2.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99B2 4324 bytes