Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73c793134b68a676…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 221c4126a3ac8f3c25cf297e3ffe44c8 SHA-1: a64000727fcfaa93f965d432bdaeffdb676de54c SHA-256: 73c793134b68a6763ccf80a69288040a1d7abd8ddefecc908e413712c4cec301
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=finding+percentages+worksheet+tes, is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to worksheets and URLs, suggesting a social engineering lure.

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.ru/pify?keyword=finding+percentages+worksheet+tes
    • http://pesitugu.raagnew.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776321/61f52e97ecc9d32.pdf
    • http://luxugame.tranbcreative.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/6348880.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5310/4790/files/checkbox_in_google_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1352/8987/files/basic_agility_ladder_drills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3193/6674/files/jebikalufireritef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1171/8820/files/5310166302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2117/2897/files/android_7._1_software_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9456/1188/files/xasetulemimafosiziludigom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/46033026583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8789/6488/files/78566730746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3426/4220/files/convert_to_word_acrobat_pro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0185/5646/files/bawugusugijixido.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_off000077fe.bin
778bc5de6c2de5aa1e8b8d044a8003651ef0a851b6ddcd694044b16a28761271
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77FE 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a72.bin
8c3576e29d7dc7c380f2d3a80e72c1d16b47942bedae6d20e0904373ba8135e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A72 10192 bytes