Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70bae92732ce8ef0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 18:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb3fe5d42caddbbe2ad86bc994153c85 SHA-1: 64dbcad5e2c82c9cbf6d59dd6cc5c3c858fd6dd8 SHA-256: 70bae92732ce8ef0d4ad8cb77f66c23578d45ea3cc1fc3a66d469f37250afd0a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a genetics worksheet answer key. It also hosts a large number of other PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation to improve search engine ranking and visibility. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector is a high-confidence indicator of malicious intent.

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=simple+genetics+practice+problems+worksheet+answer+key
    • http://files.aarponondagachapter243.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775232/zazanilasaka_jexafebusiwu_pakimitukod_zopesagago.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6980/6494/files/70650546022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/regotufarusonodokuvalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3180/4574/files/can_you_delete_a_retweet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5326/0706/files/83663554400.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5021/3274/files/36065059457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2030/4034/files/fasugogagopedumezigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8879/6053/files/jujokukaziwuwekodez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13139855908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97697777452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7813/1611/files/xemosej.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_off00004314.bin
5bdaf04dfdcc3e4bde71dc2860649ca0245bdaa447b5572ff2283439e4e1e0e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4314 5848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000056e0.bin
3ff4df53eb2b7c3f2088f579e5afd498c13c34b29ed9853933148ed588342595
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56E0 11424 bytes