Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16fa636cc17c759e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:56:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bc3df305ba1a6465203506833f184118 SHA-1: 269a6445fea77705c81ea57118057ac4c6439da3 SHA-256: 16fa636cc17c759e8c548537a8cfddd6fa49352a3b629f6eb666f06e3e4ada66
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=library+scavenger+hunt+worksheet'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or redirection attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=library+scavenger+hunt+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0430d59fc6b84d73877ca041e394734c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e9fc2_87e62a57f6e34f3888f51bd02ab21b8b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8c683f470e8d4d2c9afb00afbd6570fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_40d955db258743aca8a77424d677199c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a31856_7c180b8f51544c369d5b3897a1ae8b82.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1470/9670/files/83705132858.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7147/9709/files/gogovedone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9603/9839/files/small_file_to_word_converter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8333/3799/files/bosiwonibaxupukel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/4775252016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1490/6279/files/instructional_design_training_plan_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3552/5282/files/basics_of_computer_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1300/5724/files/gudup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71895612735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8151/8494/files/integral_calculus_book.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_off0000561b.bin
17e4134ac7daba2c6f695832bd2b9f5341a387fcdb75ba2e2144d2ccfd90dd95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x561B 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068a4.bin
0756a4213fd0f791bf4af30f82798d7cf6111a365667bc820e01ad08a3c0d1c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A4 10552 bytes