Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a964dd52a315400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 11:48:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5d774e06f4808b53919918381543d31e SHA-1: 253615b7e713f37cf76d952983e8b527a191d19d SHA-256: 6a964dd52a3154007caeea979aa79966187fc9b21d6dadd5c3740125f0f5cb5b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a PDF link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=background+remover+software+free', is flagged as malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this malicious URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a lure to external 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=background+remover+software+free
    • http://files.patriksoderstam.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775263/winafanabew_jivenijalafibe_mivezekatuk.pdf
    • http://pasowinef.materialsresearchgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739704/d9fc0f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5458/8316/files/84884361198.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7988/3170/files/42630016089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4457/7178/files/9277587738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3316/5986/files/77957780032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4601/files/pezewapeful.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7364/2406/files/snapchat_hack_tool.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5067/2033/files/81383554187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1871/4264/files/javascript_tutorial_complete.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8107/1782/files/woleduzedukukegusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/90837225201.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/3217/6808/files/money_banking_and_finance_b._com_part_1_notes.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_off00006578.bin
051e52aabc45b5194b0f1b3612fd6cd62255f6fa8c929fa79b31cfdf15e4d3b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6578 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007875.bin
66d089be890fa38a85396527fa7183b7ccf5445994125962077c639982ae5ea8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7875 10284 bytes