Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11b05a4e6b4029a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 10:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7d81865ee1dcd31ab5217b963d39d079 SHA-1: 83c65aeb96dcaf4f877b5001d33e6c09e158ae13 SHA-256: 11b05a4e6b4029a0116f10b9b19db363fa210e22934e385c84da6d26ded571bd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Spanish worksheet' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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/pify?keyword=rooms+in+the+house+spanish+worksheet
    • http://files.highlevelstore.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452878/0efa88d83c439.pdf
    • http://wipipa.universalwellnessaz.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/5609615.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/doxujuduzukogis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8709/4177/files/toxevefijanuguwaduge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9146/files/wizukipivunalibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5719/3895/files/40411005315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7317/4693/files/coulson_and_richardson_volume_2_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4986/1791/files/53016334625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9780/8285/files/rasezabuset.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/momuxukoras.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1713/4502/files/food_and_beverage_vector_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2770/9597/files/mekafeli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2314/6906/files/wizodimigetelu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7243/6889/files/xosadofeziwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0879/4525/files/zorejew.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_off000065e5.bin
49781ed4f64ea7e870a33b23811fa9098d03207a5ed184038d9e4087f2b9aace
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65E5 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007773.bin
eb36d4e5f0a646c0b4ebc1f717a536acef281f60bf2c5256b3e5fb6198c1e18e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7773 10028 bytes