Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 018a8441aec5d81e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fe375955f6ac4d27f1ecbd957fba8aad SHA-1: 1d7dc8b1f7ff4fcc7fa7d665a90621d1cafdb283 SHA-256: 018a8441aec5d81e0100d15e769cbdc57bad975d324a03114371b35f26faad2b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure for a worksheet download. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering via a deceptive link within the 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.com/wix?keyword=object+pronouns+worksheet+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9316/4181/files/21155102480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53293114795.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2207/3508/files/nanasoja.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_c3735688688e44c7b30bc886f98ce70b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b8ee6b17fb5641bd94b5b5786a7b4a0e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de3d83_86abb369a9c6404089f8d76a1c1bda97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c4177_aacd2ef25df14774a0f69a3f192c587e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6116/3670/files/appsc_polytechnic_lecturers_notification.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5934/7618/files/35853451265.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2330/9727/files/spring_foraging_bundle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/doxozevizifuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6409/4873/files/free_converter_to_word_for_mac.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000045ed.bin
29253bd59dcd471bb6f564bcbeb8a16be5940a4aba2232787822d86132f21f2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45ED 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057c5.bin
008a7dde8515695bc7158500d7c3b7cc722fe8b18ce8bfa9e8cafee805150966
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57C5 10076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007a40.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A40 4324 bytes