Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e65e84609f1c294…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:26:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 63528d8c26a95137156a8d84ab20d8cc SHA-1: f10358b9a2fe925b097cfcdb43cb3233c66605ab SHA-256: 0e65e84609f1c2944d656d1d0f4ee90f8049f9e851e16e9962833853612e1992
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an academic book and a URL that is also present in the heuristics. This suggests a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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.ru/wix?keyword=deborah+g.+johnson+computer+ethics+pearson+education
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de3d83_0b4d8d95a8bc45fba37489cbd1aab6b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_734f0021fc9e4a6093b275344b3cafcb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5250ac1005bb4c97ab30d4d81513b93b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_46346ab20f6048e0a71d7bf4084d0cb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_84925f555f054e87bcf7bacf60537fb1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_65257470cdfa4353843b286775c9c074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3004/5091/files/50513344079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9649/7573/files/brief_social_phobia_scale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9764/0360/files/bong_appetit_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2931/5229/files/credit_report_singapore_government.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/37700853284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4044/8410/files/creative_director_resume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8233/4617/files/manual_dexterity_activities.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_off000069e4.bin
2502ce4b1d01aa948634c5601a43bc87e31cce0ff46ee835372b838740db7377
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69E4 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d2b.bin
4cf23836e58fbe808175106813b1d9b7121dd4925184cfdbe33dde4a711e03d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D2B 10308 bytes