Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6005695a4a688d40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:18:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2daed02c2787ab382a10f9d62d63a408 SHA-1: e1d8d7b718f33ac8b423147b07fdb000c47adf69 SHA-256: 6005695a4a688d40af02e08ee4c9aaf78cb95ea74029a4e1de7a0cb48164b439
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on Shopify. One embedded URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bv+raman+books+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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/pify?keyword=bv+raman+books+pdf
    • http://files.wellsvillefriendsfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776037/refizedavaloxu.pdf
    • http://files.thegreenmedicineshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681440/8225319.pdf
    • http://files.workingdogpetcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407530/2294349.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1573/9304/files/kriteria_sepsis_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2017/3983/files/52255573827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5385/0528/files/vexuzitosokiwuxiwigatij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6488/3355/files/alan_kardec_livros.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9538/8313/files/bed_bath_and_body_works_job_application.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9415/5169/files/geological_processes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3444/files/da_4856_fillable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7763/2154/files/57290763707.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8282/5371/files/forensic_anthropology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5816/5925/files/tanka_poetry_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9832/5663/files/22279876352.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0083/9841/files/zaditozatibubuno.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_off000044de.bin
b6ff3b0c02768757b484dfd8c6512783659d695d8457394fa599f0da580333b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44DE 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000575b.bin
06a30c648ddeb127368921f82e59c02451f64446052e02cede834477a8156815
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x575B 9400 bytes