Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56df734e8bc914c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2698e8af13f6ba034f080f3404e79312 SHA-1: f219860af7f607a95318914183c4c773ad85b503 SHA-256: 56df734e8bc914c86808e11933ed1923b33321820607303bafe812be6b18f7fa
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including a primary link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to academic topics and URLs, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector link confirms the delivery of a malicious payload.

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.com/pify?keyword=bisection+method+numerical+analysis+pdf
    • http://rukagex.stepheningram.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/bagavupinubujituk.pdf
    • http://files.ccpdiscoveryschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378943/04d7f4ccb9.pdf
    • http://files.kickit4jdrf.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680974/nifupixa-jevovomem-zemusat-simaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0821/9547/files/15933210428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8606/2495/files/77354846530.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2791/files/xilupevagugajibefimosupaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4578/9600/files/47012422194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9492/4694/files/personal_mission_statement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2915/8295/files/7244701019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1619/2153/files/xuvipogafanog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/2000/files/jidigukaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5108/2143/files/47413016976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6949/7753/files/kumolisozegukiru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7702/5446/files/kadiviwotijugarovej.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006118.bin
10a599f6a80f919773b9ba5027ddb585c6c54c97aa9395d759b911d07930465f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6118 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073d4.bin
14feeea8797978882451798e3ba90802061c539bfdd334f669263ea96366fe80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D4 14152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a184.bin
f7282090e270060608fdc575ded0b184a97243f724fc845514d2e81390c10c7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA184 16144 bytes