Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a7d053a74b19063…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 10:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c901d672cc8fd5024fda571a66f2594c SHA-1: 8f04553e31031e92903e609b279493dacca9c2ac SHA-256: 5a7d053a74b190632987674ec447f7bf7cf638c5d849576e42d99790c9013d0c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cisco+jabber+iphone+end+user+guide', likely serves as the primary lure. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=cisco+jabber+iphone+end+user+guide
    • http://rafasak.missioncleaners.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/bd30f8fb8f8.pdf
    • http://files.expandlivings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406491/85813.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4371/5229/files/62730621019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9809/6284/files/50839785514.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1175/8491/files/report_abandoned_vehicle_los_angeles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0235/6127/files/63376124004.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5443/0368/files/2726045594.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8572/5850/files/79630983346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0811/4340/files/purple_mattress_purple_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4549/4684/files/54326318443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2372/7783/files/wajisobevazevonu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3877/7249/files/92646365428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0114/3715/files/12354151090.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_off000045b2.bin
e318e19df64d791b335144d4a7cc7af5b3f5b6fec5b5f8ccc0e042e10b991846
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45B2 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000580f.bin
c5218c16fde600788c4a5bc9cfb7969792c8ec832e0b9b43797561b8a1c8cce0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x580F 9768 bytes