Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dc7125bce9584cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:00:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3a6f6d5c3a9da859ae876fd501875be8 SHA-1: 93c70f1d5b26e5230e05564e8a5debf36fe433be SHA-256: 5dc7125bce9584cb2bf9b04e6fcb7237c7591b3b80c7737b1ec31062a1c0942f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=deped+affidavit+of+undertaking+annex+3+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments that suggest a lure related to 'Deped affidavit of undertaking'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or content stuffing technique to obscure the malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=deped+affidavit+of+undertaking+annex+3+pdf
    • http://files.ccsfmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482953/zitapinerotitu.pdf
    • http://files.emi-ceramics.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681066/8337133.pdf
    • http://files.drheatherloenser.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858916/4677354.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3768/files/valorexawekolediragababuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8232/3870/files/wordly_wise_book_9_lesson_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9660/4825/files/kejigokota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0250/2048/files/43144440399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1562/files/lopafibalorizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6742/4412/files/38232444788.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5345/7320/files/mabewuribadatapara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6192/6293/files/17834526959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4578/9600/files/juzobuvaxuzurenuxoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/43491688345.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_off00008d4a.bin
03841c36a03acc4af001f997de10cb2b52a090ee80b047c8ee2a71a4593867d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D4A 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009faa.bin
6f2dd4b775c4ed89810d2bc0dc5e9d8180fe0c323eeb6319299274d3ab198a16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FAA 10208 bytes