Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60c01127e47708f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 11:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70c13ad80f052d522570231ec9a25049 SHA-1: 8ec22906f6ec633dcea1a354e11d70132273456b SHA-256: 60c01127e47708f940f989e4d8f408f1ea00d5f6d01b51a4e6f71a336ac7d0ce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=does+gram+negative+have+teichoic+acid'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign Shopify links but likely serve to inflate search engine rankings. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

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/wix?keyword=does+gram+negative+have+teichoic+acid
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4962/1406/files/finimubopazojog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/3544/4646/files/zuvekixojiraguj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6237/0210/files/kabiti.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94e15fad5e8d4bf5bb00b762395d5e4e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05f9fd05704643bcb590d79a516f4ca2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a9a74f8d37d344579b838ec11b08e0e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9be2234007124171a6aad0196ce47b7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ed90f2a3be8542cda28f486d9cbf2f16.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6885/8024/files/insulin_aspart_dosage_forms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2789/8268/files/40665935379.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/8229/5969/files/colorear_por_numeros_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2842/1528/files/avicennia_alba.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_off0000681c.bin
a31f121b53c052c39c7adbc5d91a06c5cf1d381a0fef0aabbe010d7df38cdb35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x681C 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a42.bin
52b7c2bde1171fdbdb9842d31822fea86e83b0b84cc4be14c2033ed86ec90dcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A42 10520 bytes