Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29032718e988644b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-09-15 09:12:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b8e2946f9ca728d6cffffd47acbffa4 SHA-1: 87dad52d73761d141a3a35cff5d553ee0a0a6619 SHA-256: 29032718e988644b1b3e99eab4aa71cc7fa55164b53af114a06b023eea80c92d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to suspicious domains and are likely part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent link redirects to a malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.club'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic worksheets, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

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/pify?keyword=chapter+12+review+liquids+and+solids+worksheet+answers
    • http://files.novalitchicks.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859993/12e65404ebf3ab7.pdf
    • http://puxuda.blacktidefishing.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969077/favutojeluz_gavagogove.pdf
    • http://kojusom.fleetvilleswingband.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606457/kobaropabij-rakupatuve-suxogeveb-gononisetib.pdf
    • http://petivimit.childemotionregulationlab.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/gasepavurilum.pdf
    • http://jowofidig.ezek.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398345/9098593.pdf
    • http://mofekimam.thelionspack.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380733/8b591.pdf
    • http://zosozamox.marciasantore.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/tuwuzulonegimubidop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6663/9014/files/25265246387.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/2855/0556/files/27821749230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2539/2035/files/jutepevelomakanuguxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5934/7618/files/kusasimeve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4552/8487/files/bewexezolawipebax.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000047aa.bin
8ae27fba982ffa8e14297f029ed2f30261658724341d7766c99c4798cbae67d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47AA 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a57.bin
91080abf53bee553b19b36cdb9197d3d3fe5482ecf70797f6d4a4926321465b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A57 10300 bytes