Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b7ba37c448c67f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 00:52:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10fb07808d8e808c70f366d6ab33927f SHA-1: f202681690b91a91d5fffcceb348a0824e2c968f SHA-256: 5b7ba37c448c67f52ecc74a03cac487e83798e1c9fe04306bfa1bf3184b8bce5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru', which is used in conjunction with keywords suggesting educational material to lure victims. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=addition+and+subtraction+of+fractions+with+different+denominators+pdf
    • http://files.ashma.studio/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163718/wepenovunaroj.pdf
    • http://files.godsvineyardchurch-london.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163898/jijebuxeradirok.pdf
    • http://files.newnurse-academy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776790/vuwanakege.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/jilidozebosodajovebuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4893/files/45247150379.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9090/1144/files/mibumel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6654/files/rikagakunitozutelugewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/solid_angle_concept.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3464/files/pdf_file_editor_exe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2661/1356/files/membrane_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/64616943158.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4079/2999/files/lolijesub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2769/2695/files/1813389451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9618/files/50427859732.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4301/0213/files/22117554033.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_off00006039.bin
6b19e58766c512e39bed11d15ef93d00c8e441d12e648366538eb997f935afa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6039 5584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007312.bin
88a26a3df0ac1feeacca48fb7aae80589161664d32cce3b43a269bb3141381aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7312 9796 bytes