Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ec118667ea02744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 03:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 71e8f70b09b5f16bf4b998e59a65eaad SHA-1: 7bd81dabeb39dd4e013e8e0b629552a5650e2c7b SHA-256: 0ec118667ea02744cbb86e42a7c586bbfc655408a10ab99efb616a61dd861fa4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically directing users to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=cset+foundational+math+study+guide'. The document body also contains this URL along with numerous other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection attempt. 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.cc/wix?keyword=cset+foundational+math+study+guide
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15216b0e15844e7fbff76eea20b523a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f2a30a9a72904156b09b47f6b151624a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_649517d3e2b14ba1816d4229783b3e13.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9878/3382/files/espresso_english_grammar_level_3_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5544/8213/files/sebepekobazilakunozazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8294/8506/files/zopevirarumo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8c0e65_bd1f883cccd4434e8a62e481c3f7d435.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3649d2_4e824d29092940c29aea553fb6ff60b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2274a7_e932d3f96394403690361076c5755fa4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d481109ebff045f2aeded6ef80821e5c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_0bec993531114e219b5924539b4df8af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a2e4_c27a9ac48fea4641854af59f7df5496b.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_off00006204.bin
f2cd89a75b0333a8e8fc95dcab05d45d4ece95517159368499f510e82379108e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6204 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073b4.bin
a29c426e7bf7c7520adc00d6cdc99bef7aae3362c60057d0119aa0f8cf593414
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B4 10756 bytes