Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 018d36bcbb50236c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 02:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9bef9a5f8b4c69eacd65673b38526ed6 SHA-1: 736d519431b1d9f8a66e817e10c165e6eea70d82 SHA-256: 018d36bcbb50236c1ecb38b67076e4b345e0a3f427903d05a8b89fbcfeb89fa1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is used in conjunction with a lure related to a worksheet answer key, suggesting a phishing or social engineering attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=7.1+our+planet+of+life+worksheet+answer+key
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3552/5282/files/73407325302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6081/7048/files/vagisemizabidefaniz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0221/5069/files/rosadobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0094/files/givube.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_01c0d35c53b741568e686c0c6e08911c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7596/0985/files/zetaxerulewedetazabox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3023/9642/files/1293907286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13652925252.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_7170be3353b94d73a1828c38819cf647.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6fde20de732f4948909f569345c69715.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cd79e3_aaeaaa9de6d34befb008afde43e259e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e745be_375c78cd0b374dde8072a1cfaf1453f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5a24bd9f1bc7496996d93b0c6e9612e2.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_off00004f06.bin
cc804b213318137184018d9393706b8414b76e6952d1b94edab66904b1362a2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F06 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000613f.bin
507063c5d3944d2a73b271cb61595b6f76187b5ef45cc64fa0b33dad7eacc09c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613F 9444 bytes