Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ddb0cd176314860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:13:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7107b6b29eb4e4f19b802b3f9b078bf2 SHA-1: f9258817ae86e102f53cf1f6b15a8a6e6b619b11 SHA-256: 5ddb0cd176314860da1dabc40318c3155bdf3e9d2aab4a2702caf79022618713
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=synonyms+english+list+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain this same URL, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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=synonyms+english+list+pdf
    • http://zepeme.kim-bella.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/jowifuxavisenudusos.pdf
    • http://files.codi-us.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969494/mozisemed.pdf
    • http://files.animaltrackingandbirdlanguage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776619/6049023.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5827/5238/files/17616524127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6826/8456/files/proform_xp_160.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6335/3244/files/10396166392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6690/1148/files/que_es_psicologia_gestalt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3080/5671/files/norma_aashto_t_27.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7654/0834/files/30184234778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8773/8533/files/gukokom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6104/1559/files/behavioural_economics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2854/5693/files/todowapojosatokezom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2371/1903/files/karelebenimemisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4016/9384/files/39709596731.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_off0000bdf7.bin
af63a78980c53fb3a8ced09b03aff22e77539c9b426f72883148831c6eb19fb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDF7 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d016.bin
69a1993b2275dbd4d6a672ed1dcb27528632bc7b0d349d125ee76f80b9c65fcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD016 10552 bytes