Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66da1fee7b5a34a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-09-05 21:31:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8f1ae2aa011c84261c51a7d0c231cb3a SHA-1: 38a3f40cf88b3f978c31bf4499393f77e5c63368 SHA-256: 66da1fee7b5a34a05ea05530f63398b8f9c4e42bbceb2e75557bb199a3815414
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to a 'unit circle degrees and radians worksheet', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential SEO link farm used to distribute malicious 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.com/wix?keyword=unit+circle+degrees+and+radians+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9132/9173/files/jexalojadeze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/wokuxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1135/0439/files/dymo_labelwriter_450_driver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4553/5400/files/bromatologia_libro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2190/0696/files/texas_cdl_handbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2646/5436/files/i_am_barbie_girl_song_audio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/dadato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7462/6470/files/syllable_structure_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5221/2130/files/free_printable_cute_calendar_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/8402105605.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1729/8342/files/37431117020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7768/8743/files/22251356562.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/110ef3_976b0d82345d46f190a1f7c924cbaebb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34ec99_1346c52202cd4d8b97bc4daa9f8347c5.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_off00006795.bin
fd61063819d6a1064f8daf999f4fe923e1e6609fabf029a3a9c72242d08941a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6795 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079d2.bin
5ddb064cc468888f8efb1867c256d5fa667c803f02cf3e10b4814a791db95471
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79D2 10204 bytes