Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60817f0920edf47a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3dd185467eb187b1f14b2afafd99f8e4 SHA-1: 3852d81e52d4c2db07ecea1eedb2033f0b0fbcda SHA-256: 60817f0920edf47a701b306dc8afd8eb2f9153224e2da247dc734510c15909c1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=writing+numbers+in+words+printable+worksheets'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting an attempt to lure the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous other external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also 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.cc/pify?keyword=writing+numbers+in+words+printable+worksheets
    • http://files.gptraveller.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695372/170c7d6.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6711/7463/files/absorcion_de_proteinas_bioquimica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1144/0803/files/fuwulofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8960/0414/files/pujivomixupov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4398/6330/files/56915051197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6263/1326/files/factors_affecting_biotransformation_of_drugs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0879/4530/files/pajatajujibemoxosomenali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2379/4337/files/wukepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7056/2209/files/apache_2._4_for_linux_64_bit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9620/2661/files/zivezuzatekovodelosasid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2820/0096/files/call_of_duty_mobile_tencent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9902/0696/files/823451237.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_off000068aa.bin
c3fa7968eb103aa0125854f3ac9b9707afc7018c4741657859ce81cb9aaff74b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68AA 5684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007be0.bin
add5707adf2a959c60b97d130e517a3c035f522def8f575e822f38999ed966d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE0 12096 bytes