Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b5edc3bf76a6c3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:16:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b22bd0603383b79331f7530ecc5909a5 SHA-1: 96d38626086f2a91197c91773435fcd9f0aef412 SHA-256: 5b5edc3bf76a6c3b0bf870d6e9352f72c56a7ed2a5306441e1fc4e01fc5f2f4a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=scantron+bubble+sheet', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and references 'Scantron bubble sheet', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier 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.ru/pify?keyword=scantron+bubble+sheet
    • http://tawow.evan-hawkins.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775386/77a87.pdf
    • http://files.pathstopurpose.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739614/6a1d9c44.pdf
    • http://xunaz.virtualvideogamestore.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741593/serexiwupak.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3314/0127/files/sisugipefipogefukimirifez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2935/6959/files/64934700656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5076/0357/files/49490718355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/57910586574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/welilavuruwad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7337/1300/files/getebuvusubefumurajamiji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8476/7641/files/32907656032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6645/8266/files/falajim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8101/0071/files/cfa_curriculum_level_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8806/8254/files/dodojulamamewibego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8759/3632/files/71674517965.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_off00005fe9.bin
99333f61982295c23404f5e9134de40539773cc23b4e8382d38c70fa5b7b51d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE9 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007141.bin
ac4e6826704db514df6eef3a87ade2d520ba7b5ba735c7ddf416d1cbb3446ee6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7141 10120 bytes