Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6597dd466c28f576…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.3 KB Created: 2020-09-21 04:23:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dc05d89983ab71a9be9bcfc2d0b61737 SHA-1: dca319c1a05d8b6440285cc399d976ab32b180f9 SHA-256: 6597dd466c28f5764583ab6a7798286e2c81f058cab1d1d58eb899e242e32046
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=unit+1a+unit+circle+test+review+worksheet`. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF SEO link farm pattern, embedding numerous links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a list of other PDF links.

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.club/wix?keyword=unit+1a+unit+circle+test+review+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/rittal_busbar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/jolojaxasibadopexevutise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0975/2478/files/64156475249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5622/5694/files/syllogism_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0467/3699/files/48441852721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/jepawuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9547/2793/files/ethiopian_reporter_gazeta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1054/6070/files/septic_shock_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0176/6310/files/vupumajodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3224/7457/files/basereg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2979/8818/files/fiche_mtier_brancardier.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1776/2973/files/clicker_heroes_codes_2019.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_off00003f4e.bin
d2801c8a66c1853b37b35c2971c344e083b1f14905c1aabfd35fb1452b40eddd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3F4E 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000050ea.bin
6f9be29aeb65741a6a865ea9ab5da3902ab26bfc172c61d62aa9b0f89668a254
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50EA 9228 bytes