Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dab98d4832b95f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 13:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e007d44ec4c21c661f8a63dda95d00e SHA-1: 77a1efe593f8ad5679f21612d8b9d6c396e774ea SHA-256: 8dab98d4832b95f1fb8c44f5fca161ec6a228b32a78ecb95d766bc27065a2f5c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used in SEO link farms to manipulate search engine rankings. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=writing%20a%20letter%20worksheets%20for%202nd%20grade', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing educational worksheets.

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.com/wb?keyword=writing%20a%20letter%20worksheets%20for%202nd%20grade
    • http://guxofidod.jasehagen.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/vobosokif.pdf
    • http://files.thislittlepetshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398308/0f6aac.pdf
    • http://files.musicmattersintheuk.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384025/8822457.pdf
    • http://files.becksusedappliances.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637271/bipoxutuwexodubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5802/1027/files/teori_pemerolehan_bahasa_behaviorisme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8955/9705/files/wetumadixukigegumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3667/2162/files/kefesanisitenavemomuna.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4444/6118/files/losafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5152/2977/files/current_affairs_september_2020_affairscloud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2807/9004/files/kaduligoxomejeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8514/3965/files/38924509932.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2956/0481/files/material_design_lite_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0252/7895/files/gawob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7365/9292/files/23508359505.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_off000051ef.bin
ce9ee446ba6076a51df5cd38e61f22ac4e560b7facbb86ffb77bcf62e2ac0762
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51EF 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000649e.bin
5c24d681d857251f5420d98b4a782b1a05bdc961c072d12e01be99ca85b36ffc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x649E 9700 bytes