Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaaad83c3c3bc5ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:47:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d13752db399ae65b38911f8d05d7b309 SHA-1: 5b44dc14741b3356ae9de8896a5b1e93cddbc006 SHA-256: eaaad83c3c3bc5ab97a8c12677ebdc98ce3fb8d01db87a33bd9255c676700126
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass of external links, with one prominent link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=scholastic+teaching+resources+pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious activity as legitimate educational content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of a phishing or malware distribution 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.ru/wix?keyword=scholastic+teaching+resources+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce14f3_91b1fb81a9e14444bb1023190104064e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_25bc10c4aeab49bfb623038ca7ad96a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1b8612_263ad9dbe9a0413f903141076ac463c4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bb76e93294e649dda410835ba43541f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/61b8bf_0530409089364c4e9d9980e63d75aef7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a1fb72_f397d6fa4f0a43409a6f33716608676b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/convertir_de_a_word_editable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4832/1702/files/41017946067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8900/2645/files/cardiovascular_physiology_multiple_choice_questions_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8090/files/split_files_free_software.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/1448/1062/files/7811496667.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004bd1.bin
1144ece3209222dd15f135ffaedf865f18e48dc6dbca042c3cbbeb98922bb85a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BD1 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e10.bin
2d73dac21e0d01c9ad751917c708474a485a9d5901c3c012780f13432f58cb86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E10 10548 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008216.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8216 4324 bytes