Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dd613c2fe2a5516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:31:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8cfebfd4e3b37b2d865bd191cdc17a6 SHA-1: 09d04fa3fd5da0aaaa124c703ba98d3a8f4e8f07 SHA-256: 0dd613c2fe2a5516d817ff3db6048fdaadd97f9723fab4f60ec89339af4a7a80
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 a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same redirector URL and a list of other PDF files hosted on shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or content distribution network for malicious files. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=worksheet+for+class+5+maths+large+numbers
    • http://sataw.plantedsociety.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739616/3925426.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1954/1416/files/kugavawegopavaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9644/6878/files/chads_vasc_score.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1095/files/lifofukitagijubuvat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0081/6028/files/aditya_hrudayam_kannada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1562/files/36004731662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2004/0866/files/wawaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1016/2837/files/kisuvelon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9384/3358/files/mebatogow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6686/7362/files/nogusowafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4835/2406/files/56329616778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0567/2597/files/extensive_and_intensive_property_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/tonigix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/zonijojoduku.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_off0000682e.bin
c45939c94115c63a5645dcf974c37eff4db036e2a735374025bf956cfb45c6ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x682E 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b4c.bin
9de731323ba118f8646dc00903db347e95d1d65eb91346c75a205e89a6f37595
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B4C 10176 bytes