Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ec1cb3bd58e67f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 21:16:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f379e61fd8dd59e86483dd2dff43991d SHA-1: 59eccf7d9dd5a1c1b0dd130bbc544293f38aabbf SHA-256: 12ec1cb3bd58e67f94fe29ffec7f4f1184fbc7aa00c4ef325e44737b499e2b61
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=place+value+expanded+form+worksheets+3rd+grade', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify links, some flagged as benign and others unknown, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=place+value+expanded+form+worksheets+3rd+grade
    • http://files.tricotting.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873872/b044475d.pdf
    • http://zabav.ohkdiving.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/genumi.pdf
    • http://files.agnieszkarudnicki.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406403/mufunusodizenof.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0004/4454/files/directv_hr54-_500_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7650/9080/files/vosabezejijefuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2273/7830/files/wapavatumijonelegurigutaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/ayatul_kursi_bangla_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2574/4540/files/el_alienista_caleb_carr_descargar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1157/files/74463163848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4764/8406/files/17211249401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3313/2184/files/94277355236.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_off0000673b.bin
45299d2492a6b347790bab86b23b394a93bfee4f4db6759b67520534f3355342
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x673B 6020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba0.bin
1c648be560c2a8a1e2fa30f6bf14b22a8fc4e5cdf6c1fc5dfb600df5bfa32ba4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA0 9812 bytes