Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 723c35e242513820…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 15:38:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fe94597a5b55dd9bc6de7fdadf5b15a0 SHA-1: 9f144b8180d84eced9b5ea4f25a0a7429ac6aa2d SHA-256: 723c35e242513820586bb6c1d3c09372f4d3fd9496ac11f5b8af8637eaa7c7f8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=intervals+of+continuity+worksheet, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic content, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=intervals+of+continuity+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c98bc_88bf3231dbad4d339b5e3f35bc047753.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/086daf_c14193c34eca405b816a2e4048a0a880.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64ccf810d82c4e95b00fd7b0f7cf879f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d9cca24ff3784981981835209f8035c0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8962/5250/files/97539454434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0085/5706/files/19000324641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2342/3912/files/aligarh_movement_essay.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6016/2713/files/sokibagokureruzaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1760/0165/files/todadafilifedogarifolume.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ba634_445fe52e1c9a46d19d3fb5f1bdf0cb2a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f7357_afd50e948ef84bf09fe2700c6da159fa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1745/3211/files/aunt_minnie_radiology_cases.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8175/0941/files/56815859589.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_off00005e0a.bin
e231bc81388682d6607ce2d4d3e1c848fd94036f79d2e0784bc57d6575b36adc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E0A 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe7.bin
3cfbd5176168748dcdaf61e29f5414b5cf078869e7a38f11e162488cf2ef31e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE7 10364 bytes