Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1097dcbf84c39317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:21:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3e78ce89730e86b9c981954d57c6534a SHA-1: 9765c52cd5c7fd867941b26e95d47688da3af25f SHA-256: 1097dcbf84c393177cabe1ce0e3a935bc9bb99b9b3a9d7eeb4d485cc5d17d79f
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, but one critical link redirects through ttraff.cc, a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'construction business plan pdf download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.cc/pify?keyword=construction+business+plan+pdf+download
    • http://files.aaquizbowl.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/dfa40a.pdf
    • http://files.styleincluded.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740624/4445522.pdf
    • http://files.sweetnlowdachshund.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695644/gawitif.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2883/9586/files/wuwunujomazapamunugomin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2021/2645/files/agricola_rulebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2720/2205/files/rifafevamerudukoduvozom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0679/4656/files/anthills_of_the_savannah_themes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9618/files/22750695796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8778/1276/files/38391649735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1240/7967/files/92511375743.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9836/5340/files/19069935804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6483/3686/files/diwokumuxabubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5050/7167/files/building_drawing_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1566/6840/files/83941317787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dubisetebezurazoxodo.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_off00005e6d.bin
0995f1b3968b7be6e8e2db9e11da72e79323f57400abce491ef24de3b9c557f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E6D 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007080.bin
efa4e46f6377ef87e4b42b9f1e8624aa7e3f969f8b0279877e699fb410e0e607
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7080 10296 bytes