Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6500266fc881064c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 18:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cff44d21312f8f74cb5f5b642e505469 SHA-1: 30b425491691a6b82ee80f3f5c9e86bd8bffc4ef SHA-256: 6500266fc881064cc957533bb11a082e3559227f95b78d204f882114f4b827b7
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 other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cengage+physical+chemistry+part+1+pd, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt disguised as academic resources.

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=cengage+physical+chemistry+part+1+pd
    • http://files.conesetsclass.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740361/2808063.pdf
    • http://wanox.usaboxingmetro.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/4d045a0.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2953/6676/files/liranefoboxef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7687/7478/files/pulepopirim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3059/3192/files/lavajumaril.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7328/9888/files/werapapufirejeloxamolel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3872/7589/files/13106105357.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/kitijulakezafajomolu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7125/0336/files/zanilivupawod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8579/8301/files/xaligelekapeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3400/4891/files/bansal_classes_chemistry_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5588/1115/files/bsc_magazine_october_2020_free_download.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_off00005cbe.bin
87ef889554a01169d8264f424653092ad18ed1e51a0f497c1e6f5c381404e7e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CBE 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f70.bin
b8ff27b85f5662bc1b1cd4b5b5e284079aa3eedd485c0ead5925079c07ceffd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F70 10068 bytes