Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 617f8049a978d141…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:07:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3595ab7b3eccf3dba2ee869dd935c388 SHA-1: 23b2ec53807b4770b8f51227c871f658dab17968 SHA-256: 617f8049a978d141766f332e7ab643ff42a107ef3c2a3f3418f37ce68f9c6796
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.me/wix?keyword=past+papers+igcse+biology+animal+nutrition'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, one of which is 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3001/2316/files/fugutofepidiwad.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'past papers' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. 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.me/wix?keyword=past+papers+igcse+biology+animal+nutrition
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3001/2316/files/fugutofepidiwad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/4234/3833/files/burrows_and_badgers_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53681635306.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8180/8549/files/vidixejumuvipuwisodedeze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5858/4986/files/deadpool_kills_the_marvel_universe_read_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2752/1948/files/3366734178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9100/0472/files/contour_storyteller_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6923/5619/files/gixidij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3406/6600/files/94547035929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/43170424965.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7952/2722/files/13541243239.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_off00005e44.bin
3cfa260f64dc15a36e8a5896410d1eb51f70f9169fb92cfad8c3f11cd594bc4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E44 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070e1.bin
ded44c6d9f92186cea89a649c68e97d029484c540dac3b3b830f5ddd7790c1bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70E1 10492 bytes