Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 000fc003f8ba33ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:33:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5450a365ad7e873bea979462dc7a21b7 SHA-1: c5120e198f69b28bb05c990d29947ae4f950d19d SHA-256: 000fc003f8ba33cae65b5670f02eb49d48cac8e1e5499091fa26c2aa290a3acc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a worksheet. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes a mass of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The embedded URLs and the ML classification confirm the malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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/wb?keyword=subordinate%20conjunctions%20worksheet%20year%202
    • http://files.redrootswrestlingclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/a6d316f8086eeec.pdf
    • http://files.exploremuncie.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813804/605509.pdf
    • http://files.graceub.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681404/6733747.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3965/3030/files/los_4_acuerdos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/48839871465.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4233/3084/files/rixovazenadugiragake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7248/6564/files/download_august_alsina_testimony.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2163/0631/files/fidemoso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3455/0177/files/kisadagufukebewobikinaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4532/8808/files/66306901308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/27488518229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0027/2792/files/75581649116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6662/2105/files/pokepilo.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_off000045ce.bin
a543ee787c7a7ab29140d0086407db2b994b69b0fe0dd261f30b3b3e2822e2a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45CE 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005944.bin
7271746b932826b562f320e75fc18d3b712d3d2a338f635612ad2bd13f1bced0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5944 9868 bytes