Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ba1c3cb5a74f5ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 20:22:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8a329d1a07f3e30db753271228eb1f54 SHA-1: c208f6f1a88c49108eedf67af2d4676ebbebaab4 SHA-256: 5ba1c3cb5a74f5edf47b63f968faa0d3e898353fe88124f98f8f4909bb3b031f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to what appears to be a link farm designed to distribute SEO-optimized PDFs. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=free+kindergarten+math+worksheets+comparing+numbers', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lead users to harmful content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=free+kindergarten+math+worksheets+comparing+numbers
    • http://likal.impact7generations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410227/4509c118.pdf
    • http://files.medicalequipmentcorp.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380756/2898562.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xixuvedivikeror.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9647/3749/files/29716318269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8678/2369/files/52154558511.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3444/7770/files/libro_arqueologia_del_saber.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5497/3606/files/gimelizokex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4213/6476/files/canales_de_comunicacion_electronica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0709/0581/files/35445509645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8938/5890/files/visual_guide_poker_hands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7929/3338/files/18222373224.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7362/6524/files/dumunulup.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_off00006b94.bin
53998c0f70066638cec40bdc57fc96cfe9921c76bb0b8133553d232fa7c3f168
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B94 5708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ee3.bin
c0ba4c4b4959f3f8903a3164c4f8cb58bd3c5e9a11c2c81209d8aeb84a211b53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EE3 10220 bytes