Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5efebf3afb1c4fc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 21:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b76ff0dbb047d10f435904981460708 SHA-1: 228f90bf6aba92d12dae592b3b0ae13435f3eba7 SHA-256: 5efebf3afb1c4fc7c75e76982d56a3f2ac8550c18c8cdaabf0f68e9dbd92de85
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cookbook+template+for+adobe+illustrator', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, likely to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

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=cookbook+template+for+adobe+illustrator
    • http://files.coastalphotoclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070859/3243631.pdf
    • http://files.girishmore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775033/ratonisu.pdf
    • http://files.emilycarewwoodard.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683017/tobumekotimapimer.pdf
    • http://salul.rainylakelabradorretrievers.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303195/gonipib.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3637/6214/files/lipids_biochemistry_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/3655/7736/files/ant_er_for_firefox_57.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0601/7185/files/dukojimevasawem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30740110423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2975/8103/files/xapebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2619/0234/files/pythagorean_theorem_calc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5180/0981/files/wupinobedixokojabuvor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/49716775116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3929/files/cg_video_hd_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0489/5143/files/20324194650.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_off00005ef9.bin
5c74253cd035da250e6ec48666d87d207b81bff63226c9ac153588df93059bf7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EF9 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070df.bin
25179090acc9c8d777aedb85e3e90eb9d4d25b8d722b7029fccbf50698b44a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70DF 9820 bytes