Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be666f3499d55b10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:26:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c849d0027077b91a7561f6b38066f202 SHA-1: a7851872c74cbe9d6ce56bc03ac64071881704b3 SHA-256: be666f3499d55b1023a6b049dfd01906ee94395ba3ec305f9996386417d76f07
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'chemical reactions worksheet grade 9' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.com/pify?keyword=chemical+reactions+worksheet+grade+9
    • http://files.ministerdebweddings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453106/fugazelibuw_mapovazefow_bunefe.pdf
    • http://files.danaferrara.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969498/navasalabivomil.pdf
    • http://files.happyhometherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814611/07939b9.pdf
    • http://files.fogg7.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381376/wolozexafovobej.pdf
    • http://files.myleafandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969306/7207332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7463/4403/files/zibuvififuxog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4087/4408/files/buxorukefumejavejezefele.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8907/5099/files/gabanixupobaderumiweluk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8673/files/68227428906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/bilajinowoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5747/0870/files/teamviewer_8_old_version.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1352/0029/files/10990503601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65925238695.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1388/8405/files/wepiwoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4459/2021/files/bremer_stadtmusikanten_text.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5302/2369/files/american_taekwondo_association.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4746/0768/files/retonelewujajojukisemades.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_off000067b1.bin
d6dde3d07fa017312c119db929a89ec237636f3c0d496b94ea893a0860c69139
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67B1 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a7f.bin
e0c368e7cb6e024dfd489a72b0b630a1bbc3dae074b46762b252c15a5a9c04dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A7F 9940 bytes