Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85dd8e6c1570158a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-09-19 17:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1649223ad16423981ac9ca1c05fc8093 SHA-1: d9afcaf989ede2015770b0790edc1d985e2b6c6c SHA-256: 85dd8e6c1570158a49e810c66518549a1cbb7b8d0314c360ccc23e5c01de466a
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, with 24 distinct links identified. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=mini+unit+reaction+rates+and+equilibrium+worksheet+answers', is flagged as malicious redirector infrastructure. The document's structure and content suggest it is designed to lure users to external sites, potentially for further exploitation or phishing. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.club/wix?keyword=mini+unit+reaction+rates+and+equilibrium+worksheet+answers
    • http://dijugu.bgecyclingclub.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857090/756980.pdf
    • http://files.boavitnutrition.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606563/c52d072d5.pdf
    • http://files.cardinalfoc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856129/xonoka.pdf
    • http://files.sudensuukon.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814996/pigipojukiluf.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://4eb3ee09-5a10-42fb-971a-713ac223512f.filesusr.com/ugd/fb41f9_2e3736dfa1ca4f3fa1a09dba14c5fb6b.pdf?index=true
    • https://c7e4e5fe-32c9-4651-875c-689bd80ad6e8.filesusr.com/ugd/8d0191_af67ed023dd847b7bb9c583fbce01329.pdf?index=true
    • https://c8525528-2433-4684-9415-775152f3eaac.filesusr.com/ugd/d43733_0f104b5439e14c35a2af1e959f2bcce4.pdf?index=true
    • https://e8b9e297-8d6a-43bd-97ca-3ba1510d9917.filesusr.com/ugd/8e6e76_5062e0e41c164dce9f923dda8200e9f1.pdf?index=true
    • https://f7106bf9-5d2c-470a-97ce-a280479f6e9d.filesusr.com/ugd/1f6d71_43d016d21a194059b027f0b2128d1358.pdf?index=true
    • https://13e745b3-673a-4159-bb2b-8d2ef6a8f895.filesusr.com/ugd/c88839_5da44ad54e314a629a3ec1ffe52aad79.pdf?index=true
    • https://a0f6abb1-c3bb-431d-88fd-dbe41b4e1d25.filesusr.com/ugd/9d24cb_9a7784507b7944f98714ecbc461fb649.pdf?index=true
    • https://82e21027-02aa-453d-9069-8be16671ffc3.filesusr.com/ugd/96768c_c64ef5c16b4c4b2991222a1cbd576d44.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_off0000a64c.bin
6be4b59b04db32a9a95b787e8d91b758ca80e057ec12da3566ce8349971bd358
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA64C 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b940.bin
89b6eea2c78358743f2cf454c0d2fd957c8d0982a8d2ab1e6775dca118d975dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB940 13940 bytes