Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 074ee87f75570949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:39:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5c8a181c310ce096c8a069e7025aee7 SHA-1: 421fdc2c3d002057c46d5e7bac0caef0336caa0d SHA-256: 074ee87f75570949315b3f9ec89d55c8955495563f7e72ae012943b05addc7b7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially obfuscated, includes the same URL and a reference to a 'hazardous area verification dossier template', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm strategy to distribute malicious content or improve SEO for malicious sites.

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=hazardous+area+verification+dossier+template
    • http://tipurisur.maevanaturals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/df3630cf.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6533/5190/files/sovural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/25705476775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7070/8125/files/hijos_gordos_martha_alicia_chavez_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4810/6134/files/pl_sql_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5951/0425/files/skyward_sword_gratitude_crystals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lexopiwalosadatijasaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4895/0170/files/cover_letter_sample_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7107/0617/files/wozej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9375/4009/files/museki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6987/3054/files/autodesk_trueview_dwg.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_off00004e9a.bin
69f41f6757de5fdb1db301aa0dfaa823ac7ba0eaacc655b21327abe691441be2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E9A 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000060d9.bin
569fe176b550d9cc3d8111e83651b455cc06921fb48f6b39f0e4e0f263e3a762
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D9 10108 bytes