Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 077d375bc6ca349a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 15:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0f75496f821b7d972dc55964d37a79e8 SHA-1: 3a74415453ef5d03d7c35e5df66066cfb01ecfab SHA-256: 077d375bc6ca349a4f0aa6d89e10c4bad3e0ce68859c685302f8924e736bdc00
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=critical+thinking+pdf+notes, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for "critical thinking pdf notes". The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are benign, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious redirector.

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/wix?keyword=critical+thinking+pdf+notes
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_2182123af3524806be4310d15a4f7fee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c8d66_ae9fe445f32a46ae8d86730d8be6ba44.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f55bec_a631963fbc8847fe9f1aecfe6157e15b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4ff69_956d161e579e467ba53f23487d709aad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c4ccc4_8c72d69fae6945a5a57de087ca9bce93.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a107db_f33bca3b7659450085b688cda3dbe703.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1d12c_3fe33fdc10e3440a9606c5ad67eb2715.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_681c815fcdaf4733a22cb00ec4d86dbc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6462/3265/files/friedel-_crafts_alkylation_lab_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4008/6933/files/nebadula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4290/6007/files/rigarapanox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7459/2668/files/66199745439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5926/3128/files/adobe_flash_cs6_free_download_full_version_with_crack_64_bit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6653/0719/files/effects_of_alcohol_on_pregnancy.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_off00007a11.bin
e6fd2a0dc0e2a56532cbca5039cbf4737b91df7c5e0aac7371b53f93fd47bf41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A11 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c52.bin
1669f48f699b3f44b323c9dba933e1fbf1bbdea8bf880d95780e2306cad88a24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C52 9980 bytes