Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6906b4a4031f91e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 13:38:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a67c97f2f3bbbb23ca893d8371b2476f SHA-1: 8619379f9642280b2f4bb24c99d5f28b0b2f4310 SHA-256: 6906b4a4031f91e57ba915fc83ea703fabce0a9c87be9945c1eda2fb79b98d80
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector service, which in turn points to a link farm of other PDFs. The primary malicious link is `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cartoon+movies+free++for+pc`, which is designed to trick users into downloading potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests SEO abuse for traffic generation or malware distribution.

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=cartoon+movies+free++for+pc
    • http://files.gifted.dbbcso.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813364/fopukejezuf_gewugibuni_dilogumaxajoz_midaba.pdf
    • http://files.actionautoracingllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682802/8b065710d6eaa8b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8144/0168/files/dilifowaxevepupelesiluget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5137/7049/files/tivaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5327/7603/files/70435952779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4536/2591/files/nda_admit_card_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5732/3933/files/terovap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8592/9375/files/bra_sizes_pictures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4637/0471/files/52012891619.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6037/9286/files/bipeladepivetudipilibak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7188/7767/files/45710173138.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/kategepebagonidumub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4344/5141/files/history_of_apparel_industry_in_sri_lanka.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_off00007c44.bin
968793e3132e0231b6c9217d6b84bd03cdd63d02ce389634768986d61c1e4185
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C44 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d89.bin
2d4b196dceec89e0e850b7a798743c417772653b31a52cce055bd238fe64c0ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D89 10120 bytes