Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6766a67de3077dd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 03:15:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70560a696fb98db851b92cc5bc00ff37 SHA-1: cb1dce48603e6dd35759f0f2caced2314d5d8cce SHA-256: 6766a67de3077dd39edd9a42c25fca255ec66176588d89f5eeb3d555baae597a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify and other domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ben+10+sinhala+cartoon', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious redirector and benign-looking PDF links, indicating a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also 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.cc/pify?keyword=ben+10+sinhala+cartoon
    • http://mupakor.oldtel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/d1f84f5dfd8789.pdf
    • http://files.anaestheticslondon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776089/texadewosirilativ.pdf
    • http://files.icbnz.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681426/vugemagewepifinowi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/pelariton.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8476/6620/files/rumavulajogapenibudexuwew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2725/0850/files/94296701685.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/1220/5216/files/abstract_noun_list_a_z.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8775/files/bulegofojapamidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3754/7929/files/bitokexusinuwamenugumiwas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0185/5646/files/wupujalil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5026/1915/files/wefakekamiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0300/9430/files/zuzaxituvapusojazazasej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4796/8149/files/2855460261.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_off000046f5.bin
cc87f82e0a41e05cbf3db4092d73901866dbdd7a54a6227340fd5cb3034674aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46F5 5132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005858.bin
4016677db0a6f5149cb9783576ac7de30bc6835cdf5dbc1292a187712a698a1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5858 14540 bytes