Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 660f9870e1f6bdd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 19:37:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 17bd2f13a6a2b7adaf11f070afc97a8f SHA-1: 3c1ea6d86d8cbcbb03d2df2efea2c46809ba7e02 SHA-256: 660f9870e1f6bdd26ea9c5460a77d41a6af801ff91d7bd26765f1d8038851b86
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 external PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious redirects. One primary URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=endocrine+system+pdf+in+english, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same lure and URLs, indicating an attempt to disguise malicious activity as legitimate content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=endocrine+system+pdf+in+english
    • http://tafilevax.lambertfarmslogisticspark.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/b19c4b2a01.pdf
    • http://xokorenu.healthenpointe.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741198/d3c2d7cae30.pdf
    • http://dinubi.hiddencharmdressage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775451/fukibejofup-jafewitubikogik-totol.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2692/3172/files/base64_string_to_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5791/3749/files/lexagobajavowufixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9597/3276/files/7859228409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2373/5720/files/bodupoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7162/5634/files/zalenogax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8291/6767/files/statistical_elements_of_machine_learning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4098/0647/files/48075615830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9890/2438/files/mibimi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7052/9436/files/fifijogug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5513/7447/files/88625697767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1819/7912/files/69224997184.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_off00006e76.bin
b2147c47592a94d3f3f14cbf3f6bbc7f52ca28c36482bdf9c773dfcef55c4349
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E76 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080cc.bin
71304220067e4424ce0866cf8f3a6000f8fb17811555ce06b19f741b94e93856
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80CC 11188 bytes