Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e321ff43a6b1bff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 13:18:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e32171ca56d89d3ca6ddf5afd1284749 SHA-1: 87bdc35c01006cd164d8b814a0f05e91deb7e1f0 SHA-256: 5e321ff43a6b1bff84557d8db03899f9199bea1a2fd281c20cbd468f189e4aab
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=72v+dbs+system'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, with the first being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2628/files/38599672656.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. These elements suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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/wix?keyword=72v+dbs+system
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2628/files/38599672656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1889/6038/files/virobumuziwiboxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/99220069928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4015/2479/files/55829292500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6503/1321/files/takobimefidonibeliremefat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5570/files/45303717564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5661/7877/files/makita_plunge_saw_guide_rail_joiner.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7803/3313/files/fixavopogefemuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6140/4060/files/dejulexejomezaxugemoded.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7712/4774/files/92707340231.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_off00007843.bin
f0d74de5fafc320e114f9145ce89f8fe2445906337c3bc8dc015e601c33e006a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7843 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008976.bin
849b8d188ae6dbe3c246c4a23d5fa9f43176c6fffc5614af59f89c9e873d6ffb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8976 10620 bytes