Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6b3c7eee824dbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 17:48:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7469d82cad71fa8887da2dbc65d415fd SHA-1: 6db35fc39551028eb53a07c7ec0ba77121edbdf1 SHA-256: 5f6b3c7eee824dbe6e9f26d6619f4bb0d3c8a9ae1de751bef796248e1f144eb5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=platformio+vscode+not+working, which is flagged as malicious. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially manipulate search engine results.

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=platformio+vscode+not+working
    • http://biwari.redfishcottages.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681947/lokevizomem.pdf
    • http://pebule.championcleaning.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382134/8272b4cb409.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0399/2485/files/66667715226.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/5520/2723/files/28929821396.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5639/0559/files/6556738481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4533/6726/files/fovexuzujamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5222/6974/files/26265165416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/1965/9420/files/mamumagufabiriwipenox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/amman_songs_lyrics_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4632/files/67073575701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2400/6820/files/acting_resume_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4366/files/65502900894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3519/6568/files/59753790324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6974/4028/files/19033350370.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_off0000653c.bin
43a027dbfdbd35cb689e8a2f4d18de8f531aba44a7eb6e6f6dd587badab41229
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x653C 5560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007820.bin
590f50346f8ff62c41e8359e0902538ad44c8d1be264340dc887f80980bce01f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7820 10212 bytes