Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6505919ac7bd998f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 09:56:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbfd1e751ae1511a6543e01ede618fc4 SHA-1: 60144abd97ac591297cb4ce555bc518f7265389a SHA-256: 6505919ac7bd998f4abee3341c41fd367f91970e911f120d6e57710193181472
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=free%20redaction%20software%20for%20pdf', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the lure.

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/wb?keyword=free%20redaction%20software%20for%20pdf
    • http://files.bejoyceful.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483266/zujemewolijogeb.pdf
    • http://files.cmsa-westmi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776407/4571746.pdf
    • http://files.thistlethorn.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164351/xuwonoseb_fujumowotadomu_lidebakipuwoxe.pdf
    • http://kaxubogi.workhappymums.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/3701942.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7180/7394/files/95045657705.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5193/4108/files/xadogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5644/8167/files/xotukawan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4373/4172/files/85287421622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6540/8662/files/88014693892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6044/5855/files/wawafale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8022/8759/files/32803247153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mirogorozizodixomalejog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5271/1582/files/jamodenuzejekemiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3236/3676/files/wevivom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0523/8692/files/28083658265.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3651/6250/files/moveva.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_off000069e1.bin
75e171505929b356c179e48a5c4e3f969b7e35420c6bdbd18aa8a685194e0d5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69E1 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b93.bin
4860f755f65e1de0e04249ebe30d51c3e0deb15b55473fbe0fd72abb7bffed36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B93 10528 bytes