Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b09a69a5d8b3756…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 18:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f03e44d30d11fad0ac00743b54b4d4d SHA-1: 6c9e771dc252d9cbd3b1e9f4bcfe821f22433a5e SHA-256: 0b09a69a5d8b3756fd14e896c7c6673b4ea466cc2dda96e07ee5e09f2d056178
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector to malicious infrastructure, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cursive+writing+practice+sheets+printable+pdf' is a critical finding. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

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=cursive+writing+practice+sheets+printable+pdf
    • http://files.conjureknits.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438259/vukeniwopojatet_wibopax_gimuji.pdf
    • http://files.saltwaterstudios.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/871831.pdf
    • http://files.lincolnfencecontractors.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681938/7c5f525598fb.pdf
    • http://files.cpanyc.info/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681513/1908675.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2332/files/16383022160.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/govos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5763/5735/files/mugekavalaxufuvetukifuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6341/0845/files/bubudujakibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9726/8128/files/somigidotazaxuxul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4995/1125/files/purpose_driven_life_summary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1198/0964/files/9938623943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0960/5791/files/utah_seller_s_property_condition_disclosure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/ad_d_1st_edition_character_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/kidevadujele.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_off00006810.bin
638885ce4c9f637716e60fcccde4af79c6047f245ca43b6d3fb0f17383219e05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6810 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b33.bin
429a8d03c1a1cc1542a649660347629c9d4bad4dfc09990cbe965c60dd817e9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B33 10224 bytes