Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c6571d8633bc62c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4b1a628990a3db93edfd45f08d53b925 SHA-1: c7a2c2dfadb821947e0bd4a0324e05c82a1c7247 SHA-256: 5c6571d8633bc62c62134cea96f66b3f3b230e1f55329480934506ff30b06fa8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=sarl+bodler+cvece+zla+pdf', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links and redirector URL are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

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.ru/pify?keyword=sarl+bodler+cvece+zla+pdf
    • http://files.mywoodshop.co/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437655/9d55d678455a579.pdf
    • http://files.savannahgreendirtdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070109/9903756.pdf
    • http://jomepelej.take5reviews.ca/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969332/luwumixomilafi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6063/files/pogos_games_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2388/2664/files/walaponorinofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5625/0525/files/48699316956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1079/3370/files/23012186766.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0636/9697/files/nte_cross_reference.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/xuxebajamaxojaduv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1537/2953/files/falosifuwilipuzopado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5192/5155/files/mogak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8319/2727/files/bebexifipodojiniben.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5815/0046/files/kasumamuzanaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3415/5928/files/54686420859.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_off00008642.bin
0ee3503f41b863e5709cf6f1250150fe1d9650f04eefa6d671058cf4ad29d88a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8642 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000987b.bin
11ead6997d2be46227f20be8de7128f898a0e3c6b82b963775d0202b4d575ed1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x987B 10120 bytes