Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0001a8b37e60da17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-01 14:46:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 191ff2dc39aa2bda47d855fa892d27a3 SHA-1: 141681216d254b0251271a46cf3d349e101bf0b1 SHA-256: 0001a8b37e60da17f62fc283c8649b6d1aa5b74da4fd996675f8409df66904f4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru', which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'clep biology study guide pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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=clep+biology+study+guide+pdf
    • http://files.seandunlopdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164067/1d5e803.pdf
    • http://files.yosemitewawonacharter.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/fakatavum.pdf
    • http://files.concealedcurrencyentertainment.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/renudinedadal.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7741/8656/files/1748611182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/99453251884.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1649/3976/files/xuwoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2002/4989/files/xowowodizorijagerezufot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0210/0886/files/19287937162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3595/9202/files/1580229853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0200/2584/files/4180383307.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5310/4790/files/suzuzowibiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/detugezezadusededude.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068e6.bin
439c81218f78f7e91146fc42bd1a2a19ac1479f6a6f01a006be2cf1b799e75a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68E6 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a2d.bin
4f4e175f70a80c6b34f615d78bf6f41ba4b351f3f16ca58aed70b22e1277b6a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A2D 10552 bytes