Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ead424d140c3f05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:10:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 145b0d76805bb0ae4a087983f334591a SHA-1: a04745fb917aac891f978db8fc756a03152b8187 SHA-256: 9ead424d140c3f050d2b78646a5645adb42cbc81b06c04391bb79fa8b48e031f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a lure related to "machine learning coursera quiz answers week 9" and embeds multiple links. One of these links, https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=machine+learning+coursera+quiz+answers+week+9, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. 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.ru/wix?keyword=machine+learning+coursera+quiz+answers+week+9
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2639/0946/files/52503189346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7852/4832/files/luther_s_small_catechism_with_explanation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/python_julian_date.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/veterinary_microbiology_and_microbial_disease_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6707/1894/files/gimilitevoj.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_08b7e61acb7943a58bb4d15be473e1be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_0edef66a82f944de9419806222d9c47c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d57bd_5ac4ba823da3438fa0f0ba076ee4b443.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c45a3521adb48139282e4aac115287d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_ac3937aff8a149b79d208a542e419713.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b93.bin
b8646819af08f9f88ea594aeb2baf5afcc83dfe08c29e762027b703bbf69ca91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B93 3316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000877d.bin
b6f1910e28b6631a44bc08cb90ff79c64f87f0b545163f924486763dbb1393c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x877D 5556 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a64.bin
7a02da73c5ff24218d04b188db7d31ceb9303d5dedd43b645f18a615a19d9b6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A64 6068 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000aa15.bin
0d1480695ea284610097336fdbc47455ffd3e2240528c474c5ab049494a779e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA15 10236 bytes