Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3af2c74ad8bd92f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 18:39:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 00f8281d9e39eb64cdd81a2e6c06757e SHA-1: 13847198ef3f9ec698ad505a1c05b4cf71daee2b SHA-256: 3af2c74ad8bd92f2c2a1f959e3b8ab722e4df4ba5159aaac9d29fa4b110d1be1
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One such link, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=simplifying%20radical%20expressions%20worksheet%20answers', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=simplifying%20radical%20expressions%20worksheet%20answers
    • http://files.fhacaurora.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776511/badavi-jinugap-midupeweg.pdf
    • http://files.mr-stevens.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/zoxakaso.pdf
    • http://files.healthnotwealth.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874495/8ea4984.pdf
    • http://files.sawmlian.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/vutejepasaratoz_nikan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3164/8661/files/rebanijiforulapoxiwezon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0971/2021/files/22237632202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9914/2810/files/16853968423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6249/2313/files/tuxaduneligupewadib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1867/1512/files/maui_snorkel_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1877/9815/files/92606345007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1760/0152/files/50803374968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8211/1381/files/add_blank_page_to_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3998/0710/files/tipos_de_canulas_para_traqueostomia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8918/0310/files/kayla_itsines_28_day_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5613/6341/files/lusel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9424/5537/files/59793539417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8188/3030/files/xebokakapon.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_off000061e9.bin
a73679d571bcf0e7e29aba0e600d71e498f8e580eebd09733c69f06725b68d72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61E9 5996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000763c.bin
6d9a3115498bf64bcb60dbb0953d47704ede94fdfe7e6ba7625982471e3b9671
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x763C 12616 bytes