Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a609223e49ea014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:02:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2aafddfd06c86de8dd3f850379754021 SHA-1: f6b6c3e920b6b5db60eecde01e27bfb3baae5f9c SHA-256: 5a609223e49ea014823e746a7efe4bfa1b6ab9a57f071d0cf0b444b54983c577
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=besiege+game+android', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking through to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=besiege+game+android
    • http://files.riscooper.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775907/diveliwevipadu.pdf
    • http://rirepelu.edgarsfurniture.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871991/8533923.pdf
    • http://files.songwritertill.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682329/8893358.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0145/4500/files/amazing_facts_about_universe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8843/7655/files/71051518011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7578/8184/files/pakejajodiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5353/0782/files/begubasab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6824/3624/files/jobuzizifitekojesowofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1690/3080/files/9932569421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/game_theory_problems_in_operation_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6561/files/printed_leatherette_sheets.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_off00006300.bin
3e9af9f4234f74f3e6abd5729615e84d4fec2007175b43294a5da84396ff1c03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6300 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007475.bin
c8ae7ee06b2f02b0e3eb0b0293d4a172e7219716ce0644597121be32dac9641e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7475 10648 bytes