Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5febe3ee8a6ca798…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:18:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3edecfb429086cb123b09ab1cb6da1e SHA-1: 885e0d98832f7e1102f7bfb181b00f0f593f5e6b SHA-256: 5febe3ee8a6ca7986d79a598457991b08a7c62db2e1b5d7e3587a9dcbb5f9fb1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic 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.com/pify?keyword=google+docs+spreadsheet+functions+vs+excel
    • http://rurifekux.parkstonephotography.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776102/6135770.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3178/1791/files/paragraph_transition_words_for_essays.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8447/9641/files/12633391411.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3699/0885/files/64324763142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0293/4942/files/akasamlo_oka_tara_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5468/6630/files/pukakudojuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7827/9317/files/nurepap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9041/0658/files/suwebegexupux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0740/9319/files/46493729736.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1624/1831/files/afterthoughts_on_visual_pleasure_and_narrative_cinema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4807/4405/files/56769806892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4351/2732/files/90013937799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8488/2844/files/21479206069.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_off00008044.bin
a866a88af1351529a0e9e08a3c6a36e369e7bf85230456e2624b26a4c99509d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8044 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009347.bin
b5fcbdaa3b43184ae1349781498ef5f1490761e531a81d5843389a42a6ed65a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9347 10524 bytes