Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81a813b33b81260b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-09-17 12:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6b482ce29728ac45491122c1f3a3ccb2 SHA-1: 485872105838a8ebcd13712e9d82212299530316 SHA-256: 81a813b33b81260b9d39e53373bd658161ff252ae21a71a47d2740b40efc72a7
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, a common tactic for SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content. One URL, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=common+and+proper+nouns+worksheets+for+fifth+grade', is flagged as a malicious redirector. 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=common+and+proper+nouns+worksheets+for+fifth+grade
    • http://jefuv.nursinghomeneglectatty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775971/vowumu-wufezunefosaf-xebibalagixuva.pdf
    • http://files.buskedisi.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379833/1d33a9f80.pdf
    • http://files.elitelifecoaching.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814055/teseloti_virogetofosawep.pdf
    • http://files.jeremydalmas.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739684/db24c8.pdf
    • http://files.chazstyles.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636972/jetiwe_wufumer.pdf
    • http://rufeg.hannibaltruechurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453541/504167.pdf
    • http://gofali.mywstudiospa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407558/pameta_nixopamotobi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7413/9813/files/file_to_jpg_online.pdf
    • https://a8d9b0f1-5c56-43cc-a235-bc1d3af3e996.filesusr.com/ugd/99b222_b56318adf35a462792891a192241bafe.pdf?index=true
    • https://1e47f1be-14f7-46f6-8845-f07f355ea6cb.filesusr.com/ugd/1d64af_1fc2a92150974f8aa8e6775b823bb958.pdf?index=true
    • https://38ad57c5-7b0f-4539-91b7-ca8e2c9febc3.filesusr.com/ugd/debdc1_a78d136e7f0b4c17901edac65b829fcf.pdf?index=true
    • https://60853ce2-f2cf-4d67-b8e8-294a515d8efd.filesusr.com/ugd/f99735_3606171bbdd64b1090c7780f050b839d.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off000050d1.bin
396c9d0cd7ab869a4e3544d25a44e617b53a564ff231769b17db2fbf5626fbe9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50D1 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006362.bin
b7c518b3362d04d778c206378a8589112622ad875560a133ef8a26e59561d805
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6362 10132 bytes