Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084d6be0ee52b2ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:24:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5c2fee51b466eb58846ce5ca1beb3081 SHA-1: e61698c57c8c3f0c1806f9f64a1759bfa2ccc956 SHA-256: 084d6be0ee52b2ffdc9764202edaf9c8fa1843e2015411612d65c4474190b595
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=hash+functions+in+cryptography+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body text is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be a malicious URL, indicating an attempt to trick users into navigating to 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.cc/pify?keyword=hash+functions+in+cryptography+pdf
    • http://gumup.dogtagsprogram.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683286/suvuloni_zotowez_rikosixuwil_gamupexudogana.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9687/3885/files/bogemafumebevesalojawed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7334/6465/files/82174551071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6621/9941/files/65842483478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2547/1400/files/acceleration_due_to_gravity_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2135/2606/files/bavodejodov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4140/7644/files/keystroke_dynamics_for_user_authentication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1712/6556/files/chrysler_200_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/rigufeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4948/3426/files/17656813954.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_off000088e1.bin
d4f7166e1c695df3b1b74385472ddababd023d17dd12a9e6d1b8edce5b48724e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E1 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009b5b.bin
2a13f0374640ec514c2f3701747db607409ae6ad4d6357d5bf8c835943a5265c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B5B 10412 bytes