Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a7304ee56d83225…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-09-21 02:02:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 90fce325c17dd895e738bd7f20ff159c SHA-1: ed572c439bceb18b0338fb7b6cd6de4540b0c65c SHA-256: 7a7304ee56d83225f0dfa5d479100dc4534068eb3c5ec65cb9398b5ab2275217
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirector infrastructure. The primary URL, https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=world+history+patterns+of+interaction+chapter+30+assessment+answers, suggests a lure related to educational content, likely to trick users into clicking through to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=world+history+patterns+of+interaction+chapter+30+assessment+answers
    • http://gevet.georgiestaight.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969476/gividadofe.pdf
    • http://files.arippleeffect.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380546/79e8d0.pdf
    • http://files.seamensexology.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/2018437.pdf
    • http://files.aislingrichmond.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437312/7005511.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://dc75ba16-764f-4514-bcdd-a4e8484d7bec.filesusr.com/ugd/756799_92997318d1094bc4bdbe6bb438119dca.pdf?index=true
    • https://912a6f8d-d600-4235-89ac-3fd54f3465c7.filesusr.com/ugd/0bcf16_b0984204e76544bd86f095356e423f08.pdf?index=true
    • https://c6487f34-f0f7-4daa-bf62-1c149a89386f.filesusr.com/ugd/91e123_8ae018658ac0440c99618f4599a09f8d.pdf?index=true
    • https://39ea5c8a-3ab7-4459-92dd-1e913089a594.filesusr.com/ugd/03dcd4_e7bfe3bab0614b1384c7a2c51cb2b501.pdf?index=true
    • https://06e72747-271d-4a21-ac32-6b2d3b64d519.filesusr.com/ugd/0adedf_5e587a2c3cb240468cf0fb92283fe31a.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0472/2963/2677/files/52885921655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4955/7917/files/baladoor_film_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6344/files/36478170396.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ef3.bin
b9d0fb9a17db5728f1db57076f62fa944b4cf64628db7e6c1c19d44809284a28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EF3 5696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007244.bin
cf041b62bf73d54442132b409cfd3224268d064f2b6e6e14e46eaea37ae8b4cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7244 9756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093cb.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93CB 4324 bytes