Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e6733c820b12430…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e83cb6da16b0dfee97ae1ab1a9c1fc82 SHA-1: cdb4265696378a6ab82b09c529f1a8df4fd78672 SHA-256: 5e6733c820b12430c709954b5a2ba1af455299d1b216665d483679e60725e89f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=restaurant+billing+android+app`. This URL is presented as a lure for a 'restaurant billing android app'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier 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.com/pify?keyword=restaurant+billing+android+app
    • http://files.bedtimestory4you.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/7728094.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0544/3237/files/23215766531.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9820/1502/files/maxotetiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1254/6975/files/71187243796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0860/4829/files/adobe_reader_offline_installer_for_windows_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9639/files/xobowevaloboleri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4656/8098/files/37842010908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4052/9816/files/ribak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1299/files/bepeged.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2940/5600/files/8197158929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7708/2019/files/61130891468.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_off0000685b.bin
fede5790e6878e4d12fb28c0550168c8e0f80323588607b4e998f22c35f8d988
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x685B 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a4e.bin
8e76d70a80ef663290842f6d6b1e4233140e21ef85d5e2c505214639ba2343eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A4E 10272 bytes