Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04ad57b702aa530f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 00:31:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 73ad5c91b4454edcbd805f1f6cb19a86 SHA-1: 2ba381157b112ab75394218436b5dbdb06f22377 SHA-256: 04ad57b702aa530fbf4275e27d77a6d45fb8af37bbd44b10ef14b58bf65b7777
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=enterprise+architecture+styles+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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/pify?keyword=enterprise+architecture+styles+pdf
    • http://files.walkbikebcd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775427/5d1178d64a.pdf
    • http://files.sophisticatedpress.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379253/zuretox.pdf
    • http://files.narwc.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969118/2af283bc70.pdf
    • http://files.blueridgebaptistchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383651/7570073.pdf
    • http://junov.honeycreekpuppies.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/2563245.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0316/6370/files/bozorute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5152/1947/files/67156843968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0906/3586/files/nofawimiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/34798359086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3614/5814/files/83869433769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26450106566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1651/files/65762583787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9316/4181/files/21155102480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1789/6089/files/95125522038.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8457/0019/files/causes_and_prevention_of_diabetes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7580/6119/files/92248075620.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009eae.bin
0925fccb896e16c9e6b27d071c55f610c0da46a5f902e5274847e3a9b33be88a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EAE 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b0bb.bin
ecd91859dc374c2c1b7921186618b82722a87a17ed0e8d06dfc3b643559bd175
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0BB 10180 bytes