Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb821a1c6adaf5f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-07-10 01:14:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 88cfd6c3a39340103dd860deb12597e6 SHA-1: cb76a17d374f7130a0a14fed93079982814ea282 SHA-256: bb821a1c6adaf5f8a806ee7d2b5ab6f84a5e84390ce8d4fbd1678afc78818221
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One prominent link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, while containing garbled text, also includes the same worksheet title and the initial malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful websites through a link farm disguised as educational content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=crash%20course%20biology%20water%20liquid%20awesome%20worksheet%20answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.coachinginyourcloset.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776370/cc603903632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goodstuffprimaryresources.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681204/lamumolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.addaihealthedu.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380618/2087346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wlcbands.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/2769e0d94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jessicadenham.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712005/molavavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cailenfu.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437444/rutez_wubusaxofab_kajali_zuwogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twoforestplaza-leasing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378921/2856213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mastercreatorsadventureretreat.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437091/bizitesukoratinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nessasgoodiesshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606280/gizemazilowujonawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pemmensgolf.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/febokibilodirina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://guzebamukubu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/kukafoxevekilipeloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gunurineso.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vetinefupibosivezuxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gapekapanad.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/61686672361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vezumore.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/28929223944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sivutis.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/soxolabanigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duwadunox.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/81556021637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43561311815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mubexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/28391359898.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_off00007c0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C0B 5780 bytes
SHA-256: 0182a5759367d32cc0dd8c051d55ef262afd9a65b101a0b190d6cd9f82289f73
font_01_sfnt_off00008f99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F99 9996 bytes
SHA-256: 388c32ca9906552590088b3eee442d300213213c3ff6a8d2a9eb53e82e34455f