Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3596b7456b552da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:26:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 23a14ea5e21dae3f76d9f775b0a7b744 SHA-1: 487407299b31daa76ef6dba10d4249a6946d7a6a SHA-256: b3596b7456b552da8168ce877c698db885c6a4518ebafc896248af45136b079a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be an 'adverbs worksheet grade 4' lure, intended to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is a phishing or redirection attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=adverbs+worksheet+grade+4
    • http://files.lavenderlanemi.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069899/cd9d470.pdf
    • http://rafuv.lebanonsquarecirclers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407921/sunixerejedikab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7694/4021/files/80348963397.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3796/5979/files/91678775629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1770/7425/files/pilegex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8361/9738/files/marine_safety_management_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4002/8325/files/nedevebusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5511/files/zogaremoxipusen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6815/4278/files/901971358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3082/2555/files/astm_a182_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2496/6044/files/xivivaranalazukoxenibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3039/5552/files/pozazedotiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9597/2256/files/hockey_central_at_noon.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b21.bin
f4636b03d5dedc72fb41f23580425dc5735ad4947dbcb81b398281a4a25bb9f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B21 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ddc.bin
45ddf2bf9cc97dd8350d32b02e59f365b3f92cdd907f821645ad5cbb93e146f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DDC 10212 bytes