Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c98f3170a5d96aa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-07-08 13:01:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec489145eb918cfa7abcff678b1a11da SHA-1: 1b81f8a641c6f262f75b1b612df2c4027a90d7d0 SHA-256: c98f3170a5d96aa9658d490d6116ca8762728e26ecb1137bb724d7eb2b188d1f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.cc' and a large number of links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, indicative of a link farm. The document body text and embedded links suggest a lure for free educational material, likely to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a social engineering attack.

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.cc/wb?keyword=hadoop%20with%20python%20free%20pdf
    • http://files.mairibudreau.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/ziwawajobigogefivane.pdf
    • http://files.dianashepherd.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739780/rajisuro_paliva.pdf
    • http://files.noellejkim.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437753/aab93.pdf
    • http://files.oldtel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453316/3239411.pdf
    • http://files.match-gems.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969243/waruxe-gibotusupuwe-viputefetapaj-walugogigebomev.pdf
    • http://files.norcalteachertrainers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384539/deruvebijimuka-pogelajatozebe.pdf
    • http://files.fustlerthefemalehustler.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739839/gaxiwoloxakutenuboj.pdf
    • http://files.yogawithjw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454634/8500066.pdf
    • https://netanopitoli.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gozakinoxujavuguvaxeda.pdf
    • https://tigifelaziv.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/miragijusukamimunamo.pdf
    • https://sutuvemisa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/91805939894.pdf
    • https://wiralobabovi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/32772157617.pdf
    • https://gipegamufeka.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/38028128932.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_off00004e2c.bin
b90a52319a33a41fd40f79a36e8f1c9c036cf7e52023b0339775ac3d96e7bfc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E2C 4864 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ebc.bin
80b9b0d77fb3a9d1c34d6cedec4d08df7fcdb036faed059a79ecee30c29c0425
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EBC 9928 bytes