Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06e467559790ae71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.7 KB Created: 2020-09-02 20:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c53a7201131fd278574f4c62c71c67ca SHA-1: 53bbd0a20dea843c5fc64fc64e6021b79ae08c86 SHA-256: 06e467559790ae712f0061d2b5bbfb21d4fc1a0f10ef3f715a9c54da951531db
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically the URL 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=algebra+equations+notes+pdf'. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity as educational material.

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.link/wix?keyword=algebra+equations+notes+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/158fb9_5f1d6793199f4f3d8da3321031418537.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6812d7_0a9b1ab8c4104e5d87abf062b5751f0f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_c437e4e33bb041c591ab0c4598aab06c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3716386159e84bb3a521068b19b856cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0ebc1f_4acec88601c74d08980b7fae80330e09.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5648/6807/files/dr_jart_sheet_mask_uk.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c59f01c313944bd89b6c6d5c60b9c983.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83d902_3f044af61e3c41609eef8e3c383dfdf0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64f6a900355f40f9beb0e82df5eb9452.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6e3131_e76ce17451f646cd9366138c4d2a1b21.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77eba6_4ddeffb910c5432c97ea5305cb346fcf.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_off00008fa0.bin
70b8b78efbc5b8f55e01f73117442ba8470d5e7980b5b5f1abb40553920fc1c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FA0 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a237.bin
22deda36e7c1311ad4779d9f6c374fbda0ab9e9483a6e35b33c76740be5fc68e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA237 10476 bytes