Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6520c23068b92d9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 07:49:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: affe72deb21d52dc22989aed2273dd7d SHA-1: b3e69c768d1f6cd33f0857fe2ccbae97d533c504 SHA-256: 6520c23068b92d9b2da003df4f3e148e01da59e04f163c88addade5a09b9bbc5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bond+amortization+excel+template'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a lure to external content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a compromised or 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.cc/pify?keyword=bond+amortization+excel+template
    • http://files.jorgenlauritzen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453615/nokuvopi-wufolobisevi-zisatozumeritu-samesexujufa.pdf
    • http://files.lizstory.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453395/7688503.pdf
    • http://sowutoja.maryhicksmetalarts.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682871/biwut-vuwubidomivu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8547/0623/files/rilejulinijinevabapevaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8640/5029/files/sketch_3_coupon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5797/9304/files/7344957607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2859/4344/files/movefip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6050/2421/files/1738382223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4484/files/61255780520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0333/7114/files/vocabulary_list_for_ielts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8110/5562/files/math_worksheets_for_grade_1_addition_and_subtraction.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/21374967970.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_off00005d58.bin
40a2a03ebb679683a29de80697385dace2fd5ce73ac22bfea9cbef475cbadd37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D58 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006eff.bin
7a1833d46e8870ee589225cec8d2d95a0dc638e4b36ad059b1eb2e1672d54162
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EFF 10396 bytes