Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8838811f8ac4b861…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-09-07 01:17:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 62f272f205c5f4595448a18f1ed0234b SHA-1: 1ceeb103227a3b8731d69856391b0a856e030aed SHA-256: 8838811f8ac4b8613d5f38487834c181d2b84859741552157022f75a5c28f070
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it's a worksheet, which is likely a lure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=lowest+common+multiple+worksheet+year+9, which is used to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of many Shopify links suggests a link farm used to obscure the malicious destination.

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.link/wix?keyword=lowest+common+multiple+worksheet+year+9
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/jiboduze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1940/9320/files/active_and_passive_voice_imperative_sentences_exercise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9553/files/jixadogadafuli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3455/7855/files/chanson_cureuil_des_bois.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9825/7048/files/roxaxoruleselasekopokez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8748/6358/files/85875905620.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3089/4999/files/jurnal_skripsi_akuntansi_sektor_publik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5366/2883/files/41488980165.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cfe37_b8a00e8359df44809e6ed1db5d12d4a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce5d00_ca3c18f27adc49c7a8222517e5f96a30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b4b51566b8d4f72bc7ea6f85f414c3a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7041e4_54619ffb24f6448b98d9d92f79c84cf9.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_off00005d2b.bin
f4f2b92d6d8ee570880955e7cc0828eb790e16ce4b209cf013332be4f138785a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D2B 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe5.bin
4092fba42154bb436aac65c73adeda9c65fad01a35f1282bda65a0b62e2205cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE5 10128 bytes