Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 689f584d379c4a08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 00:42:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d11c7891269b7c68fed47879b2945146 SHA-1: 8b2227ed3f2c247c504d0ae4826d4746f137e571 SHA-256: 689f584d379c4a085489601b1ffd9dc2c8b50e9d87dc0f870d0ca9712d8b3c35
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 or SEO abuse tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=a+thousand+years+song+lyrics', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, indicating a lure to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. 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=a+thousand+years+song+lyrics
    • http://files.tothpatricia.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871740/dafes_juripa.pdf
    • http://vosunuj.michaelshusko.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407592/memopamotimekuxotubo.pdf
    • http://boraritot.astridmakes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775309/42b5adc17.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6443/4583/files/79382112442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6962/6781/files/94069827220.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5737/9488/files/wirorisumunanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/91159557079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0346/0259/files/american_english_file_4_workbook_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8854/files/doweketifiwub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4555/2277/files/580183803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8520/7454/files/95816739945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1283/3959/files/bupadebilozenov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/aga_8_standard.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4410/1544/files/nawanavizirokazexano.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_off00006361.bin
4a1174b2f6fa7c3ca9143e9368c0ce6ad2fe630aab1b86c681f71e86834cedc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6361 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007553.bin
441580b1d27dbd6858e39150dd998b5dc05245a3a707007973b621d2f6b03ede
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7553 10080 bytes