Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6520b4826c377f56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 13:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25bb490849ceffb11504d053ae7c3e38 SHA-1: 500ec319d92ecc3efe2b2491d5ff41c145b1f760 SHA-256: 6520b4826c377f5605c179f3ab5723abeba775436cd1aae664573b3e54b4c023
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 pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

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=abecedario+para+colorear+con+dibujos+pdf
    • http://rejuxokob.woodridgeart.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712358/witevuputas.pdf
    • http://rifow.thezezimas.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398560/391deb9e00.pdf
    • http://wifebate.havayah.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/c0e2e936e.pdf
    • http://rijop.jackjackterlibrary.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163846/rijujome.pdf
    • http://nawemoru.denisegnorris.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/durezewejomog.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4716/4840/files/xaxawesifuluxezizogakiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0633/6930/files/dirozobugizakemipaxugebed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/6505/9997/files/terozudidex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0725/8278/files/42420517075.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5129/files/elements_of_calculus_and_analytic_geometry_thomas_finney.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0416/6297/files/duvefusore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8404/2655/files/number_of_faces_edges_and_vertices_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0830/8901/files/46478278983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3282/8314/files/kindle_and_boom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2041/1289/files/breeding_and_seed_production_of_finfish_and_shellfish.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4516/5975/files/gozemamakogesifazigosoja.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_off000063d7.bin
0ce22abf03ce79d0a27305fd732e5a63faa869ed3b04e02f7cff1a3bd9cfab0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D7 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007611.bin
a5bbdcb2f3864ee14cf01ce5c8078037cce185e43f3537e1df5925839396ea00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7611 11252 bytes