Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f610e1d5ab9be70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 14:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5f506e246e42aac72dc63cf59ebe55c4 SHA-1: cfe6b6d87a841b0d4c53c2ce62e1aec1b262bc05 SHA-256: 0f610e1d5ab9be705f807b8ec0ecbbf8b47de3a1005f4771e4b4fdd2fdd5315c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to educational worksheets and numerous links to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to disguise the malicious redirect. 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/pify?keyword=fractions+of+numbers+worksheets+year+6
    • http://files.devereuxazevents.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163904/lutonez_vodiro_vefataj.pdf
    • http://gamamo.lifeofenergyretreats.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383965/ed45b6b8309792.pdf
    • http://files.betruebydesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453076/4999398.pdf
    • http://gupuk.cartradio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776436/tofodotapepon_bagago_xerakotetigawok_lezegazekowu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6641/6534/files/86655949961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4066/0891/files/44593280015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1266/1152/files/81187972177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8466/1414/files/cateye_bike_computer_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9008/1960/files/fejijasewoxavumagizezupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6123/1262/files/core_java_and_advanced_java_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4363/3822/files/34508878446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0790/9794/files/ultrasound_guided_aspiration_seroma_cpt_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5116/2517/files/90849093237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8150/5695/files/programming_in_ansi_c_balaguruswamy.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_off000065e3.bin
8c89e69f41984eaab14b8c4f3c614cac02d022fbdf331da22477d7681af83acc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65E3 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078da.bin
feafd02217da2069f4907913882de2cf52387c2ec122bfcd2a1e8821b0aea865
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78DA 10412 bytes