Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fcd92dfec4da421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:05:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5cf07139ba1e0e114a0bda601a9f495d SHA-1: d9a40e9928b3044d9ce9dd57b07aa49904aeeb1e SHA-256: 0fcd92dfec4da4218c828a5174370075e42ddfa0055876d46ec8862cbe4e6f47
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=from+buddy+to+boss+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous other links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a tactic to obscure malicious activity or distribute content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this file is designed to redirect users 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.com/wix?keyword=from+buddy+to+boss+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8349/7621/files/collar_t-_shirt_mockup_template_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3768/files/valorexawekolediragababuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2124/6370/files/doubles_and_halves_worksheet_ks1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1884/4322/files/antidoto_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3912/files/xekodapiruzusimesekulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/supply_chain_management_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8637/9163/files/heroku_upgrade_postgres.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2120/4631/files/87379910306.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3081/4626/files/74281087598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6497/7560/files/timizexaxef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/vofemuzavixovivadazetara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4276/5976/files/ligevenuxevep.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_033de887905148569c3e85de2ab17e19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c1206fbd2697436f99aac9899033b8ba.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_off00006b9f.bin
43759c6981a305eb7377a962931f09cff2d7beaa6a12ed43cf3f70e66f1ded4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B9F 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d11.bin
9de2414aaf5ce139d43df43b31739b931b15a79c896b021517b029379087c59e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D11 10284 bytes