Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 079477af85b45b06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:38:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b45c1c5541265366f7665f531a8f8572 SHA-1: d784a193bd3309e03c8573ba1ca5ccc5d17674f3 SHA-256: 079477af85b45b06b7f04d92679ed538abfaadf3faec6a5222da30c5cafa26a2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a known malicious redirector. The document body, while heavily obfuscated, appears to contain the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=irregular+verbs+worksheet+esl+pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious activity. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector link confirms a malicious intent to lead users to potentially harmful content.

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=irregular+verbs+worksheet+esl+pdf
    • http://files.sendingasmokesignal.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856277/guxovago.pdf
    • http://gikib.parentchildclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/gofibanara_gasibiv_kebagaxevojige.pdf
    • http://files.jblocklyn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739658/1436062.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5901/9933/files/kotevim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7973/6223/files/gevobov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0089/7434/files/49546275531.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8808/5145/files/rotobuvibibaxov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1551/1968/files/mopapunumidemigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1039/files/gst_tax_slab_for_ay_2020_19.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4842/6902/files/gosukodumeniredizifit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68905528383.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_off0000615c.bin
3da64560479120264ab3f2f1b1616948993876e1fc125736be11bdbab806e865
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x615C 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007469.bin
ae71fca9cc99765268323716da2cb798616cbe3cc5e9afd4e625dea84bdb0b0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7469 9912 bytes