Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9acf49071de7e51a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-07-15 13:32:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 6e2f54109804a29b3fd45dc3350982ad SHA-1: 03b68e3579f31769465f6f4a98697d3fa06e1af6 SHA-256: 9acf49071de7e51a44f779c66ec15190be1ff28dc3648620b39797a4c7753bc6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, disguised as a worksheet answer. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or redirection tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=calculating%20gravitational%20field%20strength%20worksheet%20answers.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=calculating%20gravitational%20field%20strength%20worksheet%20answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.zenmethodhuntsville.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397938/zubuxisewizoles-fawufovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.free2code-initiative.eu/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407010/b019c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jleefmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606631/fb24f6eee24411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ge-solutions.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378899/4ade9848b2320be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://vavokoze.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/xuvifawavozojinomuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vugifiwa.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/39355670648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gukiber.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/pibegakijufanixuvidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jijafozivofi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ripafakepatatumuwixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribodijexob.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sonupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazixapuj.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/jagoguzavigosowaxutosale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwozuxel.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/49448317748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidokagajiz.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/biduvasizubamumexapiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1204/6491/files/gujogigotikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/peposorutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/51220103530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81159011373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1555/2674/files/vetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8800/2710/files/73775609458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7977/8979/files/pevivugisakawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2937/2832/files/subuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5547 5404 bytes
SHA-256: ac70ce0455cf35ccab218a483b0bd2cff394692d7fb4b47770ef316809de7981
font_01_sfnt_off000067b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67B4 8700 bytes
SHA-256: eae21c127fddf62c61897b9821b9994c99c12db2655a2e96680819789d9540ad