Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 996eb4a48ff856f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 03:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f380bbafd0038407cdc0bf854dd38cd SHA-1: 5acfecde44b6214a49e7f3cd4d527997f17f36f8 SHA-256: 996eb4a48ff856f43f6131aacd218baf8cd35ecf7491aab5436685a33d6aa033
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary malicious redirector URL identified as https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=change+singular+sentences+into+plural+worksheets. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to educational worksheets, likely a lure to encourage clicks on the malicious links. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.cc/pify?keyword=change+singular+sentences+into+plural+worksheets
    • http://kixes.reinventinglife.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383613/5244268.pdf
    • http://lepetikim.earthjoysnacks.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071278/4387013.pdf
    • http://wotefax.hudsonband.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776508/kunupowovuk-goguvujidiladow.pdf
    • http://files.afilteredview.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857308/8613222.pdf
    • http://files.lambdamusicschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163780/72937b7c2481e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7743/5556/files/vebodewomokib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8234/2815/files/basic_english_grammar_1_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4395/4594/files/pijuke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/4155504299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3077/2901/files/vojabuvabogamunari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1355/4855/files/75054386821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1608/5923/files/95150952463.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8352/1445/files/bose_soundsport_free_wireless_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4411/9462/files/30902329896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9546/files/ccdc_2_contract.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a363.bin
4aba2bb845853324476be69e5ed1bf4ff35002942389efac2b843cac1129f0e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA363 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ad5e.bin
8e91b9ec0e17128d2737ef15284e87a7997df780a90547ac4ddccfc6504cc741
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD5E 5256 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bf4b.bin
1d31506b2a95b6b1eb680a06bc2c942bdb9213f17b638a3e3099f82dc7122ad3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF4B 9860 bytes