Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca538d8e2160c32a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:50:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cdb28507051cd93413affdfa47c8d2b1 SHA-1: 4fadc7d9048d9f29056b727cdcfc685aa3a0b3a5 SHA-256: ca538d8e2160c32ae1cbcb2cd79d749b5b2a52c851fc8623213d3930a71ee86c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, disguised as an answer key for a Vietnam war map activity. This suggests a social engineering lure to direct users to malicious content. The PDF also hosts a large number of other PDFs, likely for SEO poisoning to improve search engine ranking and visibility for malicious links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.ru/pify?keyword=vietnam+war+map+activity+answer+key
    • http://files.jamesdykman.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164462/babezomumafabe_ribenerikupudej_renus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6507/4086/files/suwitafezirafupuwomuti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5335/0055/files/pivot_animator_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2380/9187/files/new_cutting_edge_upper_intermediate_workbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9538/8313/files/jquery._ajax_headers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1845/files/92574432543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9503/7854/files/bank_exam_question_paper_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0996/files/form_ba-_49.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6586/8437/files/43347691732.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3742/5818/files/74935198223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1970/6273/files/guvamef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0656/2201/files/brainstorming_methods.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_off000070cc.bin
39b3948b0758c319f81690f58da84cd4aeb7ba8938990f079c791cabf313baae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CC 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082f5.bin
f4c6ab4981bdede12778b461ee82c015279c5d2ee7283fd7e38feadaf1183f4e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82F5 10080 bytes