Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 016269cbf54ed701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 13:03:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 668d428bc04449e27fe331961e730de1 SHA-1: 4854c7c891993058f0d52a55385a756e2a7b2b40 SHA-256: 016269cbf54ed701852a4a03bd78f879c2beeccec7c9942ccaa2ab9ad6710ab5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, including a known malicious redirector at ttraff.cc. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to a harmful site under the guise of providing study materials. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.cc/wb?keyword=cambridge%20first%20certificate%20in%20english%203%20with%20answers%20pdf
    • http://files.mollyecklerart.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606261/degota.pdf
    • http://files.polowl.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857626/5346932.pdf
    • http://zejomut.nataliejimenez.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408280/009f5c.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6655/5556/files/47040508146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0767/1448/files/academic_ielts_vocabulary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/24335970548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2865/1938/files/how_to_delete_chromium_from_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6794/9724/files/25883234636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0078/files/napogezugigivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7697/5768/files/strategic_thinking._download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/pajukujixidedumunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7658/files/87091820213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3414/0056/files/69906483020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vevisip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2865/9874/files/zatula.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_off0000450d.bin
ee7d9905a7e7d97afd0ab93a2665fc7e485c81063ba83c4ad74273fbd49c64a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x450D 5868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058ed.bin
1d531f86db8365d5b932e10173059557e4ca8e955ad0f406288b17fc80e1ef59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58ED 10388 bytes