Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69cf7c00a9fc0020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 15:39:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b441fe33610f06efa5cf316a29d5138 SHA-1: 422e8c5b117a4787ffdabf8f2e0ff6c45f50dcba SHA-256: 69cf7c00a9fc0020d81119765199657d86a213cf32f31f6e2cab50320f6dad38
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=hierarchy+of+needs+according+to+abra'. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'Hierarchy of needs'. The presence of a malicious redirector and a large number of external links indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=hierarchy+of+needs+according+to+abra
    • http://xotixad.myarus.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/3527505.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/3064/2587/files/furewuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8630/6710/files/gijoboxafazeluvura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9648/files/war_thunder_manual_engine_controls.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9648/8613/files/jepusetipilufowenepom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1298/files/agriculture_in_ghana_facts_and_figures_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2909/3784/files/assam_census_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9358/0189/files/moxamivevusuzadifuvepepon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8611/1137/files/75326724332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0605/7888/files/vudadilaxuvubajeki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5246/4293/files/10977338606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6974/1983/files/zupokarijamezumakavid.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_off00006fc5.bin
1c6bf559ba728b521c1e054bfad82981c905810fd3a65841bca11a031b3f062d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC5 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000824b.bin
13bfb69a5d5406b5c5c9dc3907e3ce1ee888842c97cf1c1f4254f3fe6d06e8fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x824B 10352 bytes