Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 687a8bd91e546abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 14:04:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d2f9dc24bfb6e80bd88d87a4d5d0d76 SHA-1: b958d0da2da7fc33befbbf2bd8b1c9b6f59f2bdf SHA-256: 687a8bd91e546abe7ff9950f677860ba3c06b1e5acf54e6b31719256bb99ad62
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'website builder for mac free' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many of which are to Shopify, likely to obscure the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links is a strong indicator of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=website+builder+for+mac+free
    • http://files.rhosarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409017/ef5db335c9fb1.pdf
    • http://files.jeanfrankstark.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379049/5449d14a8263.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3910/3912/files/fizonefawagazewivuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6285/files/security_guard_services_company_profile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7622/2118/files/35163698970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0570/5374/files/7285554484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1241/5907/files/77580666616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/doxomibapavep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1119/3501/files/xabazunuvejototub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2590/8383/files/31338585139.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_off000074d6.bin
71a0f0b69110e1030845b397c063feec7444220bb1ef5738e074cd1904763eed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D6 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086d1.bin
a895dcbe3e68ebab5cd10d195e967b4ffbd72f0c9f20be37fe2d673daf48b50e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86D1 9940 bytes