Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72a9a8436ee43993…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-09-10 17:40:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a108b7362791b3a1d1e0f206ed9e8148 SHA-1: d9d7bd14f88c7c976de341b163ac7d6ab3791cf6 SHA-256: 72a9a8436ee43993ed67faad8f9b3264ef3b9f26e13931a52318efcbb0ac613a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as an educational worksheet. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the document body contains numerous URLs, many of which are part of a link farm. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.club/pify?keyword=inheritance+patterns+worksheet%2523+1+answers, which likely leads to further 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.club/pify?keyword=inheritance+patterns+worksheet%2523+1+answers
    • http://files.fijifreshkava.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741476/e7a9e5a0bc5f3ad.pdf
    • http://kazegik.ignitemm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/fikota.pdf
    • http://files.soilandforestryservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384401/viron-rexenovisonetu.pdf
    • http://files.deepsouthbasketball.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856039/3e0f372.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a7074a_e77b962be6784e56a7b1480599fdbb09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/963627_6db47d2f0f534a638fb283bfe3bb8a71.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99a8f2_8d1a40bfac354e7d80c7093aec14754d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/65b209_37deb5c86fb143a5a70ceaa679a2a749.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97493d_16adcc0f07184ee8be480b1a297799fb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9958/4680/files/atkins_bars_nutrition_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5030/2616/files/50173293000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1720/7971/files/kuvavadujelapokukizal.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_off00006159.bin
308d54af88ed8a9064e6f7055bd8a89aa92f4ddd313fed82b6a05b418a9b0f2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6159 5084 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072a9.bin
4b1810401cb5e3ab0b4a6dd10ca6201f54bd755d51439862f7a5b65b74df3aeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A9 10592 bytes