Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d9a685daeb5c178…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 01:41:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: acba2243d36dbb5de491199d11c5fa93 SHA-1: 3eb18905a7f75c85f681c1e5f8bc7ecad8f80564 SHA-256: 0d9a685daeb5c1789d974f41267ab51e9b062f16d718e7fcf10acbb4d733bea9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=surf+fishing+guide+galveston, which is likely used to direct users to further malicious content or phishing pages.

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=surf+fishing+guide+galveston
    • http://files.shcab.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816041/gupepixuf.pdf
    • http://nujeno.judgespark.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776687/xatija_bedadozirubi_nizonevar.pdf
    • http://files.spartan-drywall.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874050/tewodifimutavavize.pdf
    • http://files.macrofinephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858661/linuzo.pdf
    • http://files.nmal-anon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452959/suzepofodi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2163/7544/files/khatu_shyam_bhajan_mp4_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1384/7710/files/nejata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8521/7436/files/26034169743.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0826/0258/files/66648263244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7365/0334/files/89531439058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/fotajikutulad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2994/4730/files/automatic_transmission_parts_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4575/6821/files/36006634765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/89843104828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4375/7992/files/lubetetexuwijije.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_off00005c89.bin
33fdcb68b26eea1b5c9170ff847784c476ae3dacf0ccfa0e2cc1ae88bc3e601d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C89 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ea1.bin
84c059bbbb1bc6b20b0bd96890fb6aa4e32dfcbe36780485e5941371353a8d5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EA1 10364 bytes