Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9001460f3acc9f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-09-18 15:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e026d3db6b7ced6bda2ca20aab9b7ee7 SHA-1: ff421fa04d1b6100d6c53b6b9e2150f4971d7cb1 SHA-256: a9001460f3acc9f1267546d9f6b4e729a3ab587125b604078a4a3fbae4efc443
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, identified as a link farm, designed to redirect users to external sites. One prominent redirector URL is https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=us+history+2+final+exam+study+guide, which appears to be a lure for study guide content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment that it is used for malicious redirection.

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.club/wix?keyword=us+history+2+final+exam+study+guide
    • http://julebalop.myforeveryounghair.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453247/tapigilo.pdf
    • http://ruremufox.hillvalleyfarmdairygoats.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/230571.pdf
    • http://bujuxum.fazzersports.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406453/xefupupetuwarikodu.pdf
    • http://rejobixon.nyharbornature.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637131/vuvizakusunukok-nelebeb-mijotujo-dutowebiruji.pdf
    • http://files.evilsizor.co/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775701/713262.pdf
    • http://files.fumelectra.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398008/xipejuluzonimixe.pdf
    • https://b71a8beb-531a-47e1-a3ca-15c6bfe1eca5.filesusr.com/ugd/ceb2e8_b3265c16dae5416e9fcd4861e6b5afbc.pdf?index=true
    • https://faf5511f-5c56-4c24-acbd-cf7f3703a7c7.filesusr.com/ugd/b73feb_3f9b21e00dee4e6891a97186b8c3568c.pdf?index=true
    • https://ca390ab9-236a-4779-b9b1-55054fd110b8.filesusr.com/ugd/c70c35_eedac6d83eb148deae8f389935fc6be6.pdf?index=true
    • https://2d191c9f-c1dc-42fa-b61c-92d60403dda4.filesusr.com/ugd/3db607_b1871ed1d66d46868b1a8636f629daaf.pdf?index=true
    • https://7dceed6f-e97c-4f4d-b49a-1e9494b131e3.filesusr.com/ugd/dba42a_72d57e31ce974e5884056b67e63357b3.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off000074b9.bin
3530db292a36c25bca7ead3e94ff4934ddcef4ce5e9d96998c884f223fe3d51d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74B9 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008741.bin
37134f8f7bdb24849fcd8e366ffab4423d7f675e7b9973e24356900440529b8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8741 10584 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab68.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB68 4324 bytes