Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 129359d5cdeb60cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 024cd5d07dfbeed797b10cd1867c4393 SHA-1: e646731cd5b5fe6058d7cf29a81c6e738b7ba3eb SHA-256: 129359d5cdeb60cbf35344401d230e6272db6e868102dada4a2fa745f6e1b908
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, masquerading as a specification sheet, to obscure a malicious redirector. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=compellent+fs8600+spec+sheet, which is flagged as malicious. The document's structure and the presence of numerous benign-looking Shopify links suggest an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation, likely to hide the malicious destination.

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=compellent+fs8600+spec+sheet
    • http://files.openboxm.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071258/tafukovose.pdf
    • http://files.thejoyfulchildatrium.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637224/todote_talusoz_xonegozobonigut.pdf
    • http://miruwol.azguide.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398455/8578251.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/http_post_file_multipart_form-_data.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2871/6439/files/durga_saptashati_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6223/1201/files/zisatijusepudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7624/7967/files/56207267630.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1537/2949/files/labobosufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3051/0742/files/ansi_c84._1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1887/8104/files/ladufivofurimanelimazixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1569/9621/files/44198208508.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0490/8952/files/dd_form_2860.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_off00007190.bin
3d7eb2b94b706d167ffeb85a616a94283ba7bc358697fd7146302d9d33a0acf9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7190 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000839e.bin
1ceddb37da426a2ac7a640c7f5dd213a41d6429a3ea974ff230149a3be4ba112
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x839E 10264 bytes