Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22951987190a4557…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-09-16 18:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c1a3020857e790a465680298ef28794 SHA-1: a2928d7e49cc617a78d40940eb70cea1e926792b SHA-256: 22951987190a4557092b454f8b4f63706c42a01831ecac91761c36efa0420571
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, flagged as a link farm and a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=investigating+biology+laboratory+manual+8th+edition, which is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the title 'Investigating biology laboratory manual 8th edition', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious links. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.club/wix?keyword=investigating+biology+laboratory+manual+8th+edition
    • http://files.gumbogiftsandgallery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740513/2916469.pdf
    • http://files.southplainswoodturners.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969551/nunoxidu_vunurorubu_gunivarapututus.pdf
    • http://xoluwupev.millermediafilms.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681066/2756201.pdf
    • http://warano.draftingsuppliesatjeffersongalleries.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070161/sizonivejo.pdf
    • http://radajuwi.salinakennelclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398109/7356405.pdf
    • http://files.cincigreyhounds.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739615/jafajelu.pdf
    • http://dosozogaz.goldaes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/606088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5652/8537/files/belgium_visa_application_form_qatar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5693/8664/files/74571863061.pdf
    • https://d011a311-002b-480f-afdc-c86d4d028ca9.filesusr.com/ugd/70e7d4_193afbf8c81c4844a64d4ebd9d65f5c3.pdf?index=true
    • https://f17a3399-fbf0-486a-86e6-509e6852ff0a.filesusr.com/ugd/76aeb6_07034d86e9fe4cb9a7104c1693dbd039.pdf?index=true
    • 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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004951.bin
5459e950c7f93edb39e0646eda845e24587a282f995327895b34dde0a9ea4701
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4951 5672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c72.bin
fcd68ea4b027cdb5eacee1add993b1b566bd6e46eb22a2b7e0b31e1ba040cef9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C72 10536 bytes