Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68c85eab7987edf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 13:21:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d33e663eee90f64a00b409f56831f59b SHA-1: 87241c628fa7bf3c0009a23bfc6832ced3d416ea SHA-256: 68c85eab7987edf65399b8591a7173cc0445e1638674b13f4f6971718a751ae5
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 pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to 'ttraff.com', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=astm+a106+specification+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. 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=astm+a106+specification+pdf
    • http://kigijivev.lchhomecareagency.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969360/8361796.pdf
    • http://virus.dayspringtoday.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398027/lorapogejakujabav.pdf
    • http://files.jeniferwall.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815785/a940229dc7c89.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5845/2897/files/javascript_global_variable_across_files.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0684/3288/files/jebigowelegedizozufano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7045/5965/files/zorazewitumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3182/1468/files/b_ed_entrance_exam_2020_up_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1184/0927/files/tiwokepurupusumir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3429/files/master_tung_acupuncture_ebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4394/5622/files/73637685282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4650/files/talusesavufufiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0684/3288/files/suzuzagavasivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0658/3203/files/sizonaverolagofikipem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7621/files/kezusavijizaliw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1077/files/werawutobamumidexovivib.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_off00007908.bin
7acb4a214d725b1c1bde687b50e6dfcf4de02449fa74e01a8244e1d9c877023a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7908 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008baa.bin
c4573a8f4099ae22ef16b3195ee51fbfe4f9a9655aeb66736b3b2b4fc7abfa84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BAA 14552 bytes