Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14c8e1436eacec17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 00:05:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 05c74b8833354342d003b65cb9cbd23b SHA-1: 0c5c59ce7bacbce8922637fc720646edb190c5a8 SHA-256: 14c8e1436eacec17dc6e2484b75bf16e1f10c5255ced10cd74fca742f0e29455
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `ttraff.cc`. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content under the guise of educational material.

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=to+be+simple+present+tense+exercises+pdf
    • http://files.mtbafghanistan.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380618/7011301.pdf
    • http://files.gocentralbaseball.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969847/fomiwuwaxukomofike.pdf
    • http://files.phoenixrunners.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683252/f83b32631a9f626.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5064/5157/files/79509239719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3881/8982/files/sulivifegubuliw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7914/5374/files/48742936025.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9621/0594/files/40974151375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3910/4917/files/69040393223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2449/8343/files/namujoloxifigitodet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2568/6951/files/texis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4141/5587/files/rajokemibupigib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3966/1981/files/tidisididonerejanoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53567737566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9635/7530/files/jaduwal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4305/1937/files/49579739010.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_off00004d57.bin
a51f37e977c2b458f3b75598396c6aff527344c29a920a577087e982770a7295
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D57 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f17.bin
1becb4b9391489dd58d2e05649429bc25571d22bd36d98cb58fc6aafddd0f317
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F17 10052 bytes