Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a487cc2739317b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 02:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e66ab4b2b38a3f37d21516e2cc99289d SHA-1: 1d67a41923b58c37f6451990a6905bbca0b525da SHA-256: 6a487cc2739317b357b5ad8d677979b173bdcace1473842d68d07209b1c11b89
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=habeas+corpus+writ+form. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and other embedded links, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=habeas+corpus+writ+form
    • http://bipoda.pokornychiropracticclinicsd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453134/8190000.pdf
    • http://files.eaststokesoutreachministry.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398010/28da344121.pdf
    • http://files.iscodesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383681/8345625.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5481/5640/files/98178022977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0982/6213/files/2037263583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5066/3073/files/calculus_early_transcendentals_10th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1751/9772/files/76595698321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/schaum_series_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6009/files/makarebanomorajejunufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2937/2836/files/73127762009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9020/files/56961538558.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6498/1664/files/2001_pt_cruiser_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1686/2371/files/steamvr_oculus_quest.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_off000066c1.bin
48eff995fa23a99bef8fb4f69ea9a8bf78bfb97df27591e7bd178e17ed7ad051
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C1 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078ca.bin
c4ee7413f7a669ff6d490c6626437d1722b56bc9dce8d6590c40aae1f801c184
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78CA 9620 bytes