Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89eb543f4ea7ddd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a6e42c7491813234603c8617bac5bd3 SHA-1: 2de7c4c1af2e7ed6fde1ccba5c9fe650a9440be7 SHA-256: 89eb543f4ea7ddd4d63ae2c6ff6b05592629e7693cbff61e0e7eddaeb66390ac
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes the same URL and a deceptive title suggesting it's related to McGraw Hill TEAS V, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content.

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=mcgraw+hill+teas+v+pdf
    • http://files.k9securityireland.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740596/lunepagelugamuvu.pdf
    • http://files.dressagestars.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681463/8249331027dc062.pdf
    • http://files.notan.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437977/7080562.pdf
    • http://files.jsaadsales.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380511/zinutisogeb-dutisikimivovug.pdf
    • http://files.agroecologyhub.info/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383661/247a2482a6a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/lagemavesopelog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2727/4645/files/gejunabozemiwapuwiwidus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7300/3939/files/fancy_reba_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4868/1120/files/22280849322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0445/2246/files/69155784320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3756/4823/files/93488110905.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/juwunarapojudezuxaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4248/8998/files/dufoverariruxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7506/6273/files/67613044009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5333/5207/files/kurib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3503/3757/files/69564490299.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007613.bin
dd7452c3206c2e55b8e7625ddd2f695dce8b332873bbfad2404cfd4d2ecdfc43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7613 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000892e.bin
55f1467c3048fb511a452255929de91bb1a23354072a693e248d7b7ce726ee3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x892E 11176 bytes