Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5059dc5a7fdf6373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 08:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5fbf4097bb7a990a9e9cee208c4cd11 SHA-1: 0d12f370440097880f26231b016203591b081950 SHA-256: 5059dc5a7fdf6373be48ead15249d170336ba30c42674d30444af6a4c38b3044
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=physical+appearance+adjectives+worksheets+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same suspicious URL, reinforcing the attack pattern of luring users to malicious infrastructure.

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=physical+appearance+adjectives+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.coachscottschemistry.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712323/1832916.pdf
    • http://mafid.guesteyes.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637419/896619.pdf
    • http://files.houghtonrangersjuniors.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873758/mebipuzuwafadux.pdf
    • http://files.djsoonaasty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775232/fazisin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6123/1262/files/tukuwofozuwosodusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4231/4152/files/axis_bank_nre_fd_rates_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6615/5430/files/53746939923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6302/4542/files/25722304583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2098/9095/files/cartel_polaco.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9870/9917/files/c3_pathway_calvin_cycle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8235/7663/files/engineering_economics_analysis_13th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7405/0458/files/51324754828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6164/7262/files/88651397782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9765/3397/files/85370711738.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000042eb.bin
7a5c873455a0e90b3f0d368f2f5802fa0aec13c33b8131d31119e4981ba3f570
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42EB 5640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000561f.bin
a431192de239401daffe95bd6679d5469a79ee2691f0d0f5e1eece1a10fa7e1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x561F 8896 bytes