Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab16e4ccae90d472…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-07-09 01:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 73986f44e3423640b30e84806f4f4edf SHA-1: 5fe3ad522c038cdb51422ccaa592ec669c3e729d SHA-256: ab16e4ccae90d47201b389646454cf9f7f78c6b48f7364451a5c06851cbd19fa
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.ru/, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, while containing seemingly educational text, is likely a lure to encourage users to click these malicious links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wb?keyword=important%20questions%20for%20class%2012%20cbse%20chemistry%20chapter%20wise%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.guerasboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636972/vuroluzelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.movefreelet.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856950/siranojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carolglasser.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776247/e07be82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.changingfutures.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606087/mufegesitawiko-matuwomap-xivekun-vokozufeletefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hreynoldsdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814423/xurojibavef-fupufubulon-lowenamov-lomutirinimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.just-verandas.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379045/xobuxisedujus_wekabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brandonmoorecomposition.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438766/muxigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.evanzappel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384552/1e5d1f14ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cfhsperformingarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969830/4446236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yourlocalartists.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712251/fujaviro_gorivegogasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.craigleacapetown.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/90bc7de4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.statebirdtogo.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710687/a1b067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://diwegola.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/36472710356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jofuguxidag.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34170336404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satebelofoxo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/34218251782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mulanarojed.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/finikalukurigejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99231100330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59022585862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mirizopenifipometetotagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nisexabidubukov.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6656 5856 bytes
SHA-256: 5d1e5072afcaba5aaeeeba132511d3da67e38489e77674a54ae5571f550e1988
font_01_sfnt_off00007a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A24 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 8058cf7e31bd20b0af3be1eb710d84425e6f2270808a92bd9d4359a777d59ea7
font_02_sfnt_off00009d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D31 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 0d7a92828fb34c46272def7401d297891c72c028a4bdfa4d2814ce18bde6b281