Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67f7e44adb3cfd8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 17:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c52a1a9da30234e2f427f1766aae2124 SHA-1: 61bcdaba1dd948a4633f4962ae6a2082e6c1a96e SHA-256: 67f7e44adb3cfd8acc358785abf84130632fd8758dc7d968d143b3217a330a67
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=sql+format+currency+2+decimal+places, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content or phishing pages. The document body, though partially corrupted, also contains this URL and numerous other links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs.

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=sql+format+currency+2+decimal+places
    • http://files.marianeth.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164556/fezubulanavufuf.pdf
    • http://files.theoverflowingbookshelf.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740011/f9207f5ad535df.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1872/9125/files/16670563971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2153/9240/files/brothers_images_hd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5889/6802/files/2014_subaru_forester_maintenance_schedule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4583/8239/files/99915588448.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7057/7058/files/mimuzigupekadaduzazaxagog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9935/6324/files/50034657880.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4352/0665/files/40925018587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9444/2145/files/38947223385.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8901/6472/files/gifelotafalukexuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3156/8277/files/eduardo_galeano_cuentos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/2726/8503/files/95266464359.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8651/0232/files/mefuv.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_off000075af.bin
f6e069eb265927e5a9b7b3f3892a0c22c5c76ff515328fac31b5ada1fd32edf4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75AF 5764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008938.bin
ee469484b629f9c06e0ae7879484f8799fe09934c627d785f2fd199a0ae3abd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8938 16868 bytes